A safety system is provided for a machine tool which has a frame and a tool. The safety system has a clamping device and a motion device. The clamping device is movable by the motion device from a working position, in which the tool is extended and can be used for working, to a safety position, in which the tool is retracted. The motion device has a first magnetic means connected to or arranged on the tool and a second magnetic means connected to or arranged on the frame, such that movement of the tool by the motion device from the working position to the safety position can be triggered and/or at least partially performed by magnetic force.

A safety system is provided for a machine tool, having a tool, having a clamping device, arranged movably on a frame of the machine tool, for the tool. The clamping device is movable by a movement device from a working position, in which the tool can be used for working and in which the tool poses a risk of injury to a user, into a safety position, in which the tool poses substantially no risk of injury to the user. The movement device has at least two equally or oppositely magnetized and/or magnetizable magnetic means, of which at least a first magnetic means is connected to or arranged on the tool and at least one second magnetic means is connected to or arranged on the frame, such that the movement of the tool by the movement device from the working position into the safety position can be triggered and/or at least partially performed by magnetic force.