FprEN 360

Personal fall protection equipment - Retractable type fall arresters

This document specifies requirements, test methods, marking, manufacturer’s instructions and information for retractable type fall arresters (RTFAs) and applies to a RTFA with a single retractable lanyard and a RTFA with two retractable lanyards (twin RTFA) as components of one of the fall arrest systems covered by EN 363:2018.
This European standard is not applicable to RTFAs and twin RTFAs used in any sport or recreational activity.

Persönliche Absturzschutzausrüstung - Höhensicherungsgeräte

Dieses Dokument legt Anforderungen, Prüfverfahren, Kennzeichnung sowie Anleitungen und Informationen des Herstellers für Höhensicherungsgeräte (RTFA, en: retractable type fall arresters) fest und ist für Höhensicherungsgeräte mit einem einzelnen einziehbaren Verbindungsmittel und Höhensicherungsgeräte mit zwei einziehbaren Verbindungsmitteln (Doppel-Höhensicherungsgeräte) als Bestandteile einer der von EN 363:2018 erfassten Auffangsysteme.
Diese Europäische Norm ist nicht anwendbar auf Höhensicherungsgeräte und Doppel-Höhensicherungs¬geräte, die bei Sport- oder Freizeitaktivitäten verwendet werden.

Équipement de protection individuelle contre les chutes de hauteur - Antichutes à rappel automatique

Le présent document spécifie les exigences, les méthodes d'essai, le marquage, les instructions et informations fournies par le fabricant concernant les antichutes à rappel automatique (ARA). Il s'applique aux antichutes à rappel automatique munis d'une seule longe rétractable et aux antichutes à rappel automatique munis de deux longes rétractables (ARA doubles) en tant que composants de l'un des systèmes d'arrêt des chutes couverts par l'EN 363:2018.
La présente Norme européenne ne s'applique pas aux ARA et ARA doubles utilisés dans les activités sportives ou de loisirs.

Osebna oprema za varovanje pred padci - Samonavijalna zaustavitvena naprava

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Publication Date: 12-Dec-2023
• ICS: 13.340.60 - Protection against falling and slipping
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 160 - Protection against falls from height including working belts
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 160/WG 2 - Personal fall arresting systems, components and systems
• Current Stage: 6055 - CEN Ratification completed (DOR) - Publishing
• Start Date: 20-Jun-2022
• Due Date: 06-May-2022
• Completion Date: 20-Jun-2022
• Directive: 2016/425 - Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EEC
• Directive: 89/686/EEC - Council Directive 89/686/EEC of 21 December 1989 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to personal protective equipment
• Mandate: M/031 - Standardization mandate to CEN/CENELEC concerning standards for Personal Protective Equipment
• Mandate: M/571 - COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 19.11.2020 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardization and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization as regards personal protective equipment in support of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council
• Ref Project: kSIST FprEN 360:2022 - Personal fall protection equipment - Retractable type fall arresters

Relations

• Revises: EN 360:2002 - Personal protective equipment against falls from a height - Retractable type fall arresters
• Effective Date: 13-Nov-2017

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN 360:2020
01-september-2020
Osebna oprema za varovanje pred padci - Samonavijalna zaustavitvena naprava
Personal fall protection equipment - Retractable type fall arresters
Persönliche Absturzschutzausrüstung - Höhensicherungsgeräte
Équipement de protection individuelle contre les chutes de hauteur - Antichutes à rappel
automatique
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 360
ICS:
13.340.60 Zaščita pred padci in zdrsi Protection against falling and
slipping
oSIST prEN 360:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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DRAFT
EUROPEAN STANDARD
prEN 360
NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM

June 2020
ICS 13.340.60 Will supersede EN 360:2002
English Version

Personal fall protection equipment - Retractable type fall
arresters
 Persönliche Absturzschutzausrüstung -
Höhensicherungsgeräte
This draft European Standard is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee
CEN/TC 160.

If this draft becomes a European Standard, CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations
which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

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language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC
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Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and
United Kingdom.

Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are
aware and to provide supporting documentation.

Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without
notice and shall not be referred to as a European Standard.


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worldwide for CEN national Members.

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Contents Page
European foreword . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms and definitions . 5
4 Requirements . 8
4.1 Design and ergonomics . 8
4.2 Materials and construction . 8
4.3 Retraction tension and function . 9
4.4 Static strength . 11
4.5 Dynamic tests . 11
4.5.1 General . 11
4.5.2 Dynamic performance – overhead attachment in a vertical application . 13
4.5.3 Dynamic function - overhead attachment in a vertical application .
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