DS DS/EN 12159 + A1 Builders hoists for persons and materials with vertically guided cages
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DS DS/EN 12159 + A1 Document Information:
Title
Builders hoists for persons and materials with vertically guided cages
Byggepladselevatorer med vertikalt styrede elevatorstole til personer og gods
Dansk Standard
Publication Date:
Aug 20, 2009
Scope:
1.1 This standard deals with power operated temporarily installed builders hoists (referred to as ""hoists"" in this standard) intended for use by persons who are permitted to enter sites of engineering and construction, serving landing levels, having a carrier
- designed for the transportation of persons or of persons and materials;
- guided;
- travelling vertically or along a path within 15 degrees max. of the vertical;
- supported or sustained by drum driven wire rope, rack and pinion, hydraulic jack (direct or indirect), or an expanding linkage mechanism;
- where masts, when erected, may or may not require support from separate structures.
1.2 The standard identifies hazards as listed in clause 4 which arise during the various phases in the life of such equipment and describes methods for the elimination or reduction of these hazards when used as intended by the manufacturer.
1.3 This European standard does not specify the additional requirements for
- operation in severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, strong magnetic fields);
- lightning protection;
- operation subject to special rules (e.g. potentially explosive atmospheres);
- electromagnetic compatibility (emission, immunity);
- handling of loads the nature of which could lead to dangerous situations (e.g. molten metal, acids/bases, radiating materials, fragile loads);
- the use of combustion engines;
- the use of remote controls;
- hazards occurring during manufacture;
- hazards occurring as a result of mobility;
- hazards occurring as a result of being erected over a public road;
- earthquakes.
1.4 This standard is not applicable to
- builders hoists for the transport of goods only ; EN 12158-1:2000 and EN 12158-2:2000;
- lifts according to EN 81-1:1998, EN 81-2:1998 and EN 81-3:2000;
- work cages suspended from lifting appliances;
- work platforms carried on the forks of fork trucks;
- work platforms ; EN 1495:1997;
- funiculars;
- lifts specially desig
Keywords:
- LIFTING EQUIPMENT
- SPECIFICATIONS
- VERTICAL
- TRANSPORT
- TECHNICAL INSTALLATIONS
- SPECIFICATION (APPROVAL)
- SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
- SAFETY
- POWERED
- PLATFORMS
- PASSENGER TRANSPORT
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
- MATERIALS HANDLING
- MATERIALS
- MACHINES
- LIFT-CAR
- HOISTS
- HAZARDS
- EMERGENCY MEASURES
- DEFINITIONS
- DEFINITION
- CONSTRUCTION
- BUILDING HOISTS
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