prEN 17206-1
(Main)Entertainment technology - Part 1: Machinery for stages and other production areas - Safety requirements and inspections
Entertainment technology - Part 1: Machinery for stages and other production areas - Safety requirements and inspections
This document applies to machinery, machinery installations and machinery control systems used in places of assembly and in staging and production facilities for events and theatrical productions (stage machinery, for short). Such facilities include theatres, multi-purpose halls, exhibition halls; film, television and radio studios; concert halls, schools, bars, discotheques, open-air stages and other rooms for shows and events.
The document applies to machinery installations with guided or unguided loads.
This document covers machinery used in the entertainment industry including machinery that is excluded from the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) specifically Article 1, 2(j) which excludes “machinery intended to move performers during artistic performances”.
This machinery includes controls, electrical and electronic control systems, electrical and electronic equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic power supplies.
The principles in this document also apply to machinery installations based on new technologies or specially designed installations which are not expressly mentioned here but which nevertheless operate in a similar manner or are meant for similar purposes to the equipment listed above.
Veranstaltungstechnik - Teil 1: Maschinen für Bühnen und andere Produktionsbereiche - Sicherheitstechnische Anforderungen und Prüfungen
Technologies du spectacle - Partie 1: Machinerie pour scènes et autres zones de production - Exigences et inspections relatives à la sécurité
Razvedrilna tehnologija - 1. del: Stroji za odre in druge prireditvene prostore - Varnostne zahteve in pregledi
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2025
Razvedrilna tehnologija - 1. del: Stroji za odre in druge prireditvene prostore -
Varnostne zahteve in pregledi
Entertainment technology - Part 1: Machinery for stages and other production areas -
Safety requirements and inspections
Veranstaltungstechnik - Teil 1: Maschinen für Bühnen und andere Produktionsbereiche -
Sicherheitstechnische Anforderungen und Prüfungen
Technologies du spectacle - Partie 1: Machinerie pour scènes et autres zones de
production - Exigences et inspections relatives à la sécurité
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 17206-1
ICS:
97.200.10 Gledališka, odrska in Theatre, stage and studio
studijska oprema ter delovne equipment
postaje
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
DRAFT
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
July 2025
ICS 97.200.10 Will supersede EN 17206:2020
English Version
Entertainment technology - Part 1: Machinery for stages
and other production areas - Safety requirements and
inspections
Technologies du spectacle - Partie 1: Machinerie pour Veranstaltungstechnik - Teil 1: Maschinen für Bühnen
scènes et autres zones de production - Exigences et und andere Produktionsbereiche -
inspections relatives à la sécurité Sicherheitstechnische Anforderungen und Prüfungen
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CEN/TC 433.
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Contents Page
European foreword . 6
Introduction . 8
1 Scope . 10
2 Normative references . 10
3 Terms and definitions . 12
3.1 General terms . 12
3.2 Loads, forces and pressures . 16
3.3 Electrical equipment and control systems . 18
3.4 Tolerances relating to movement . 22
4 Hazards . 22
4.1 General . 22
4.2 List of significant hazards . 22
5 Design requirements . 26
5.1 General . 26
5.2 Examples of machine installations showing the groups . 27
5.3 Additional load assumptions . 30
5.3.1 Load assumptions for stage elevators . 30
5.3.2 Load assumptions for stage wagons and turntables . 31
5.4 Load bearing equipment . 31
5.4.1 General . 31
5.4.2 Load bearing lines . 31
5.4.3 Load bearing lines terminations . 32
5.5 Winding devices and diverter pulleys . 34
5.5.1 Winding devices for wire ropes . 34
5.5.2 Diverter pulleys for round wire ropes . 35
5.5.3 Drive and idler sprockets for steel chains . 35
5.5.4 Traction sheaves . 35
5.6 Drive systems . 35
5.6.1 General . 35
5.6.2 Load securing devices . 36
5.6.3 Couplings . 37
5.6.4 Direct Acting Rated Capacity Limiters . 37
5.6.5 Screw jack systems (spindle drives) . 37
5.6.6 Hydraulic systems . 37
5.6.7 Auxiliary drive systems . 38
5.6.8 Manually powered systems . 38
5.6.9 Manual performer flying systems . 38
5.6.10 Load holding devices for stage elevators. 40
5.7 Load carrying devices . 40
6 Safeguarding hazardous areas . 40
6.1 Protective spaces for inspection and maintenance . 40
6.2 Accessibility of maintenance areas. 41
6.3 Safeguarding at crushing, shearing and trapping points, and fall protection . 41
6.4 Elevator shaft walls, openings and landing doors . 42
6.4.1 General . 42
6.4.2 Interlocking of doors . 42
6.5 Counterweights . 42
7 Electrical equipment and control systems . 43
7.1 General requirements . 43
7.1.1 General . 43
7.1.2 Selection of equipment . 44
7.1.3 Physical environment and operation conditions . 44
7.2 Incoming supply conductor terminations and devices for disconnecting and switching off
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7.2.1 Electric motors and associated equipment . 44
7.2.2 Protection against electric shock . 45
7.2.3 Protection of equipment . 45
7.2.4 Control circuits and control functions . 46
7.2.5 Travel of groups of machines . 46
7.3 Safety functions and control functions in the event of failure . 47
7.3.1 General . 47
7.3.2 Providing redundancy . 48
7.3.3 Hazardous operating conditions . 48
7.3.4 Safety devices and safety functions . 49
7.3.5 Means for testing safety devices and safety functions . 52
7.4 Emergency stop functions . 53
7.4.1 Emergency stop . 53
7.4.2 Actuators for and design of emergency stop functions . 53
7.5 Complementary Protective Measures . 53
7.5.1 General . 53
7.5.2 Limitation of number of simultaneous moving machines . 54
7.5.3 Protection against unplanned load deviations (load profile monitoring) . 54
7.6 Electronic and programmable electronic systems (E/PES) . 54
7.6.1 General . 54
7.6.2 Programmable controllers .
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