BS 5974:2017

Describes recommendations for the selection, design, installation, inspection, thorough examination, use and maintenance of temporary installed suspended access equipment/systems (TSAE), as defined in BS EN 1808.

This British Standard gives recommendations for the selection, design, installation, inspection, thorough examination, use and maintenance of temporary installed suspended access equipment/systems (TSAE), as de??ned in BSEN1808 .

Non‑standard installations are covered by this British Standard.

Steeplejacks and steeplejack operations are not covered by this British Standard.

This British Standard is not applicable to permanently installed suspended access equipment which are covered by BS6037‑1 .

Requirements for slung scaffolds, being TSPs on scaffold tubes or wire ropes, but which cannot be raised or lowered by the user, are given in BSEN12811‑1 .

NOTE1 BSEN1808 speci??es the design and construction requirements relating to the safety of suspended access equipment and is a harmonized standard supporting the provisions of the Machinery Directive [7]. BSEN1808 is not retrospective and therefore does not relate to equipment manufactured before its introduction in1999.

NOTE2 Systems made up of equipment/components designed, supplied and taken into service prior to the existence of harmonized standards are recommended to be in accordance with the British Standards in force at the time of the equipment’s manufacture and this British Standard.