Safety Warnings
Your safety is important to us. Please read this information be-
fore using your cooktop.
Installation
Electrical Shock Hazard
• Disconnect the appliance from the mains electricity supply
before carrying out any work or maintenance on it.
• Connection to a good earth wiring system is essential and
mandatory.
• Alterations to the domestic wiring system must only be
made by a qualified electrician.
• Failure to follow this advice may result in electrical shock or
death.
Cut Hazard
• Take care - panel edges are sharp.
• Failure to use caution could result in injury or cuts.
Important safety instructions
• Read these instructions carefully before installing or using
this appliance.
• No combustible material or products should be placed on
this appliance at any time.
• Please make this information available to the person re-
sponsible for installing the appliance as it could reduce your
installation costs.
• In order to avoid a hazard, this appliance must be installed
according to these instructions for installation.
• This appliance is to be properly installed and earthed only by
a suitably qualified person.
• This appliance should be connected to a circuit which incor-
porates an isolating switch providing full disconnection from
the power supply.
• Failure to install the appliance correctly could invalidate any
warranty or liability claims.
Operation and maintenance
Electrical Shock Hazard
• Do not cook on a broken or cracked cooktop. If the cooktop
surface should break or crack, switch the appliance off im-
mediately at the mains power supply (wall switch) and con-
tact a qualified technician.
• Switch the cooktop off at the wall before cleaning or
maintenance.
• Failure to follow this advice may result in electrical shock or
death.
Health Hazard
• This appliance complies with electromagnetic safety stand-
ards.
• However, persons with cardiac pacemakers or other electri-
cal implants (such as insulin pumps) must consult with their
doctor or implant manufacturer before using this appliance
to make sure that their implants will not be affected by the
electromagnetic field.
• Failure to follow this advice may result in death.
Hot Surface Hazard
• During use, accessible parts of this appliance will become
hot enough to cause burns.
• Do not let your body, clothing or any item other than suita-
ble cookware contact the Ceramic glass until the surface is
cool.
• Metallic objects such as knives, forks, spoons and lids should
not be placed on the hob surface since they can get hot
• Keep children away.
• Handles of saucepans may be hot to touch. Check saucepan
handles do not overhang other cooking zones that are on.
Keep handles out of reach of children.
• Failure to follow this advice could result in burns and scalds.
Cut Hazard
• The razor-sharp blade of a cooktop scraper is exposed when
the safety cover is retracted. Use with extreme care and al-
ways store safely and out of reach of children.
• Failure to use caution could result in injury or cuts.
Important safety instructions
• Never leave the appliance unattended when in use. Boilover
causes smoking and greasy spillovers that may ignite.
• Never use your appliance as a work or storage surface.
• Never leave any objects or utensils on the appliance.
• Do not place or leave any magnetisable objects (e.g. credit
cards, memory cards) or electronic devices (e.g. computers,
MP3 players) near the appliance, as they may be affected by
its electromagnetic field.
• Never use your appliance for warming or heating the room.
• After use, always turn off the cooking zones and the cooktop
as described in this manual (i.e. by using the touch controls).
Do not rely on the pan detection feature to turn off the
cooking zones when you remove the pans.
• Do not allow children to play with the appliance or sit, stand,
or climb on it.
• Do not store items of interest to children in cabinets above
the appliance. Children climbing on the cooktop could be se-
riously injured.
• Do not leave children alone or unattended in the area where
the appliance is in use.
• Children or persons with a disability which limits their ability
to use the appliance should have a responsible and compe-
tent person to instruct them in its use. The instructor should
be satisfied that they can use the appliance without danger
to themselves or their surroundings.
• Do not repair or replace any part of the appliance unless
specifically recommended in the manual. All other servicing
should be done by a qualified technician.
• Do not use a steam cleaner to clean your cooktop.
• Do not place or drop heavy objects on your cooktop.
• Do not stand on your cooktop.
• Do not use pans with jagged edges or drag pans across the
Ceramic glass surface as this can scratch the glass.
• Do not use scourers or any other harsh abrasive cleaning
agents to clean your cooktop, as these can scratch the Ce-
ramic glass.
• If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the
manufacturer, its service agent or similarly qualified persons
in order to avoid a hazard.
• This appliance is intended to be used in household and simi-
lar applications such as: -staff kitchen areas in shops, offices
and other working environments; -farm houses; -by clients in
hotels, motels and other residential type environments; -bed
and breakfast type environments.
•
WARNING:
The appliance and its accessible parts become
hot during use.
• Care should be taken to avoid touching heating elements.
