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BS EN 1709:2019

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Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to transport persons. Precommissioning inspection and instructions for maintenance and operational inspection and checks

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Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

09-05-2019

This document sets the safety requirements that need to be met in relation to pre-commissioning inspections and the instructions for maintenance and operational inspections and checks of cableway installations designed to transport persons

This document sets the safety requirements that need to be met in relation to pre-commissioning inspections and the instructions for maintenance and operational inspections and checks of cableway installations designed to transport persons. This document is applicable to the various types of cableway installation and takes into account their environment. It also includes requirements relating to accident prevention and to the protection of workers irrespective of the application of national regulations. National regulations regarding building laws or regulations or which afford protection to specific groups of people, as well as national regulations regarding testing, acceptance testing prior to starting passenger service, maintenance and operational inspection shall remain unaffected. It does not apply to cableway installations for the transportation of goods or to lifts. The provisions of Clause 5 apply to the measures to be taken prior to the commissioning of the installation, and those of Clauses 6 and 7 to the measures to be taken during operation. This document does not apply to cableway installations designed to transport persons that were manufactured before the publication of this EN standard.

Committee
MCE/20
DocumentType
Standard
ISBN
9780580979606
Pages
22
ProductNote
THIS STANDARD ALSO REFERS TO:EN 12927
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current
Supersedes

Standards Relationship
EN 1709:2004 Identical
EN 1709:2019 Identical

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