CEN/TC 242/WG 8 - Tests, maintenance, inspection

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.

This document defines the safety requirements applicable to the precommissioning inspection, maintenance and operational inspection and checks of cableway installations designed to carry 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.
It does not apply to cableway installations intended for the transport of goods nor to inclined lifts.
This document does not deal with acceptance testing prior to opening to the public.
The provisions of Clause 5 apply to the measures to be taken prior to the initial commissioning of the installation, and those of Clauses 6 and 7 concern the measures to be taken during operation.

Tha aim of this European standard is to establish the rules to the pre- commissioning inspection, maintenance and operational checks of installations for passenger transportation by rope. Its requirements will be observed taking into account the various systems and their respective environment. It includes requirements relating to worker protection. It does not apply to installations for the transportation of goods by rope or to inclined lifts. This standard doesnot deal with acceptance testing prior to opening to the public.