SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/kFprA2:2016

Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking

This European standard specifies the general design features, requirements and test methods for portable ladders. It does not apply to step stools or ladders for specific professional use such as firebrigade ladders, roof ladders and mobile ladders. This European standard is intended to be used in conjunction with EN 131-1.

Leitern - Teil 2: Anforderungen, Prüfung, Kennzeichnung

Echelles - Partie 2: Exigences, essais, marquage

Lestve - 2. del: Zahteve, preskušanje, označevanje

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 24-Sep-2013
• ICS: 97.145 - Ladders
• Technical Committee: I13 - Imaginarni 13
• Current Stage: 98 - Abandoned project (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 10-Oct-2019
• Due Date: 15-Oct-2019
• Completion Date: 10-Oct-2019
• Directive: Harmonized Standard2001/95/EC - General product safety
• Directive:

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  Not Harmonized92/59/EEC - General product safety
• Mandate: M/285 - Standardization mandate to CEN relative to the safety of consumers and children: ladders
• Ref Project: EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/FprA2 - Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking

Relations

• Consolidated By: SIST EN 131-2:2010+A2:2017 - Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking
• Effective Date: 07-Sep-2016
• Amends: SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012 - Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking
• Effective Date: 06-Jun-2012
• Amends: SIST EN 131-2:2010 - Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking
• Effective Date: 14-Mar-2012
• Revised: SIST-TS CEN/TS 16665:2014 - Standing ladder durability test specification
• Effective Date: 27-Jul-2016

Overview

SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/kFprA2:2016 is a European standard published by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) that establishes requirements, test methods, and marking provisions for portable ladders. This standard plays a vital role in supporting ladder safety and reliability across various industries by specifying how ladders should be designed, constructed, and tested to ensure consistent quality and user protection. EN 131-2 is intended to be used alongside EN 131-1, which covers the terminology, types, functional sizes, and dimensional requirements of ladders. This standard does not apply to step stools, fire brigade ladders, roof ladders, or mobile ladders intended for specific professional tasks.

Key Topics

EN 131-2 addresses several core aspects to ensure ladder safety and performance, including:

• General Requirements: Sets a maximum total load of 150 kg, reflecting average European professional use.
• Strength Testing: Requires ladders to undergo comprehensive strength tests, including strength tests for stiles and stabilisers.
• Torsion and Deflection: Includes specific tests for torsion along the ladder length and rungs or steps, which simulate real-world stresses.
• Base Slip Resistance: Introduces a rigorous base slip test for leaning ladders to assess anti-slip performance using specific surfaces and cleaning protocols.
• Stabiliser Performance: Defines test methods and requirements for different types of stabilisers, including bar, lateral, and pole types, to ensure ladder stability under load.
• Marking Requirements: Stipulates guidelines for clear product marking and labelling, ensuring traceability and proper communication of essential information.
• Test Sequences: Provides a structured table outlining required tests for different ladder configurations, such as single-piece, extension, and combination ladders.

Applications

EN 131-2 is crucial for manufacturers, safety assessors, and users across a range of sectors where portable ladders are used for access and maintenance. Key applications include:

• Ladder Manufacturing: Ensures consistent quality and compliance for ladders entering the European market by providing clear test protocols.
• Product Certification: Supports third-party certification and CE marking processes by defining essential performance and safety tests.
• Safety Audits: Serves as a reference for workplace safety inspectors and facilities managers to verify the compliance of ladders in use.
• Procurement: Assists buyers and specifiers in selecting ladders that meet uniform European safety standards.
• Training & Documentation: Provides a basis for user instructions and safety guidelines in construction, maintenance, building services, and general access applications.

Related Standards

EN 131-2 is part of a family of standards governing ladder safety and performance:

• EN 131-1: Ladders - Part 1: Types, terms, functional sizes (companion standard detailing ladder classification and dimensions).
• EN 572-2: Glass in building - Basic soda lime silicate glass products - Float glass (referenced for test surface specification in slip resistance testing).
• EN 131-3 and EN 131-4: Further requirements and test methods, focusing on instructions and particular ladder types.
• National Standards: Adopted and implemented by CEN member countries, ensuring widespread harmonization of ladder safety across Europe.

SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/kFprA2:2016 supports the safety, quality, and consistency of portable ladders through unified requirements, enabling safer working at height for both professionals and domestic users. By following this standard, manufacturers and users help to prevent ladder-related accidents and promote a culture of safety in workplaces and homes.

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013
01-september-2013
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Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking
Leitern - Teil 2: Anforderungen, Prüfung, Kennzeichnung
Echelles - Partie 2: Exigences, essais, marquage
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/prA2
ICS:
97.145 Lestve Ladders
SIST EN 131- en,fr,de
2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013

SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013

EUROPEAN STANDARD
DRAFT
EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
prA2
June 2013
ICS 97.145
English Version
Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking
Echelles - Partie 2: Exigences, essais, marquage Leitern - Teil 2: Anforderungen, Prüfung, Kennzeichnung
This draft amendment is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 93.

This draft amendment A2, if approved, will modify the European Standard EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012. If this draft becomes an amendment,
CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for inclusion of this
amendment into the relevant national standard without any alteration.

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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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SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013
EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/prA2:2013 (E)
Contents Page
Foreword .3
1 Modification of Foreword .4
2 Modification of Clause 2 Normative reference .4
3 Modification of 4.1 General .4
4 Modification of 4.9 Antiskid devices .4
5 Modification of 5.2 Strength test of stiles .4
6 Modification of 5.15 Torsion on ladder length .6
7 Add 5.17 Base slip test for leaning ladders .6
8 Add 5.18 Strength test for bar type stabilisers on leaning ladders .9
9 Add 5.19 Strength test for lateral type stabilisers on leaning ladders which are in the
plane of the ladder . 10
10 Add 5.20 Strength test for pole type stabilisers on leaning ladders which are not in the
plane of the ladder . 12
11 Modification of Table A.1 Test Sequence . 14

SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013
EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/prA2:2013 (E)
Foreword
This document (EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/prA2:2013) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 93
“Ladders”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.
This document is currently submitted to the CEN Enquiry.

SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013
EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/prA2:2013 (E)
1 Modification of Foreword
Delete:
"On stability tests and ladder classes no consensus could be reached. These issues will be addressed in the
next revision”.
Replace with:
“On ladder classes no consensus could be reached and a new test for torsion on ladder length for standing
ladders is required. These issues will be addressed in the next revision.
A test protocol for durability of standing ladders is under preparation as a CEN Technical Specification.
A test protocol for an alternative base slip test is under preparation as a CEN Technical Specification.
2 Modification of Clause 2 Normative reference
Add:
"EN 572-2:2012, Glass in building — Basic soda lime silicate glass products — Float glass”
3 Modification of 4.1 General
Replace with:
"The requirements are based upon a maximum total load of 150 kg. This figure takes account of the weights
of European professionals working at height and their equipment. Ladders are determined to be used by one
person at a time but this excludes any person footing (stabilising) the ladder”.
4 Modification of 4.9 Antiskid devices
Replace title with:
"Ladder feet and anti-skid devices”.
Delete:
“The ends of wood stiles are considered to be slip resistant.”
Add:
NOTE "A test for the base slip resistance of leaning ladders is contained in 5.17.”
5 Modification of 5.2 Strength test of stiles
Replace title with:
“Strength test for ladders”
Replace text with:
SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013
EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/prA2:2013 (E)
“The test shall be carried out on the complete ladder. In the case of extending ladders and combination
ladders the test shall be carried out on the complete extended ladder. Sectional ladders shall be tested at full
length with all permitted pieces. The test shall be carried out without supporting legs if not permanently fixed
to the ladder. Where the ascendable side cannot be determined by the construction of the product, or where it
is a multiple part combination ladder the ladder shall be tested twice. For the second test the ladder shall be
rotated 180° about the longitudinal axis.
The ladder shall be placed horizontally on supports situated 200 mm from each end of the ladder.
The supports shall be cylindrical with diameters between 25 mm and 100 mm and one shall be free to rotate
the other shall be fixed.
The test load (F in Figure 10) of 1324 N shall be slowly applied in the middle of the ladder equally to both
stiles over a width of 100 mm for a period of 1 min. Care should be taken to apply the load smoothly.
After removal of the test load the ladder shall remain functional with no deformation or visible signs of collapse
or fracture.
5.2 Figure 10 - Replace with:
Dimensions in millimetres
Key
F  test load
Figure 10 — Strength test
5.2 – Add NOTE:
NOTE Strength testing of ladders in the horizontal position is preferable to testing in the position of use because
a) of the long experience of testing in this way without evidence of ladder collapse due to insufficient strength
b) the testing is more controllable when carried out horizontally
c) the maximum bending moment is at the centre of the ladder
d) taking into account the effect of second order analysis in the horizontal position it is possible to represent
closely the as used position
e) the maximum stress can be created by loading centrally in the horizontal position.
Asymmetric and dynamic effects are accommodated in the test load.
SIST EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/oprA2:2013
EN 131-2:2010+A1:2012/prA2:2013 (E)
6 Modification of 5.15 Torsion on ladder length
Replace the 1st paragraph:
"The test unit shall consist of a ladder base section of any length, supported over a 2 000 mm test span
except that if the ladder base section (ascendable part of the ladder) is less than 2 000 mm then the maximum
possible test span shall be used. Place the ladder in a flat horizontal position and support it at each end, as
shown in Figure 28, with the bottom rung directly above the pivotal support."
with
"The test unit shall consist of a ladder base section (section starting from the lower end of the ladder) of any
length, supported over a 2 000 mm test span except that if the ladder base section (ascendable part of the
ladder) is less than 2 000 mm then the maximum possible test span shall be used. Place the ladder in a flat
horizontal position and support it at each end, as shown in Figure 28 with the bottom rung directly above the
pivotal support.
In case of hinged combination ladder with extending part the ladder should be tested with inner side extended
but in position of use."
Replace the 3rd paragraph:
"The angle of twist shall not exceed the value determined by the following equation:"
with
"Each one of the two angles of twist shall not exceed the value determined by the following equation:"
7 Add 5.17 Base slip test for leaning ladders
5.17.1 Ladders to be tested
All leaning ladders or ladders that may be used as a leaning ladder
In the case of single part leaning ladders 4m or less in length then the whole ladder shall be tested.
In the case of single part leaning ladders greater than 4m in length, a 4m length from the lower end of the
ladder shall be tested.
In the case of multi-part sectional or extending leaning ladders where the fully assembled length or fully
extended length is less than 4m then the whole ladder is tested in the fully assembled or fully extended
condition.
In the case of multi-part sectional ladders where the fully assembled length is greater than 4m then a part or
an assembly of parts shall be tested with a length closest to a maximum of 4m.
In the case of extending leaning ladders where the fully extended length is greater than 4m then the ladder
shall be extended to a len
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