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UNE-EN 12929-1:2015

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Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons - General requirements - Part 1: Requirements for all installations

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

12-07-2023

Language(s)

Spanish, Castilian, English

Published date

15-07-2015

$223.29
Including GST where applicable

Foreword
1 General
   1.1 Scope
   1.2 General principles
   1.3 Exceptions
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Safety principles
   4.1 General safety requirements applicable to the
         installations and to their components
         4.1.1 General safety principles
         4.1.2 Possible injuries to persons
         4.1.3 Hazard scenarios
   4.2 Safety requirements applicable to installations
         4.2.1 General
         4.2.2 Safety study
         4.2.3 Protective measures
   4.3 General requirements for the safety of workers
5 Line and profile of cableway
   5.1 Choice of line
   5.2 Line of funicular railway
   5.3 Line of aerial ropeway
   5.4 Length of spans in aerial ropeways
   5.5 Line of ski-tow
6 Space envelope
   6.1 Space envelope of funicular railways
   6.2 Space envelope of aerial ropeways
         6.2.1 General
         6.2.2 Lateral deviation of the ropes
         6.2.3 Vertical deviation of the ropes
         6.2.4 Transverse swaying of the carriers
         6.2.5 Longitudinal sway of carriers
         6.2.6 Hand, foot and ski area
   6.3 Space envelope of ski-tows
         6.3.1 General
         6.3.2 Width of the tow-track
         6.3.3 Lateral sway of the tow-hangers
         6.3.4 Longitudinal sway of the tow-hangers
         6.3.5 Rotation of tow-hangers over ropes
         6.3.6 Freedom of sway
7 Clearance envelope, safety distances
   7.1 General
   7.2 Safety distances for funicular railways
   7.3 Safety distances for other objects forming part of
         an aerial ropeway
   7.4 Track gauge for aerial ropeways
   7.5 Safety distances in relation to the ground and
         to objects that are not part of the aerial ropeway
   7.6 Clearance envelope and safety distances for ski-tows
8 Maximum permissible running height above ground
   8.1 General
   8.2 Aerial ropeways with closed carriers
   8.3 Aerial ropeways with open carriers
9 Running speed and interval
   9.1 Running speed of funicular railways and aerial
         ropeways, general
   9.2 Maximum running speeds of funicular railways and
         aerial ropeways
   9.3 Minimum interval and pitch for unidirectional aerial
         ropeway carriers
   9.4 Running speed and interval for ski-tows
10 Drive systems (including brakes)
   10.1 Drive systems for funicular railways and aerial ropeways
   10.2 Braking systems for funicular railways and aerial ropeways
   10.3 Drive and braking systems for ski-tows
11 Passageways and work areas
   11.1 General
   11.2 Chairlift loading areas
   11.3 Chairlift unloading areas
   11.4 Loading and unloading areas at intermediate
         chairlift stations
   11.5 Ski-tow loading and unloading areas
   11.6 Ski-tow loading areas
   11.7 Ski-tow unloading areas
   11.8 Ski-tow intermediate stations
12 Rope tension and guides
   12.1 Rope tension
   12.2 Rope guidance and support - General
   12.3 Guidance and support of the haul ropes for funicular
         railways
   12.4 Guidance and support for bicable aerial ropeways
   12.5 Guidance of carrying-hauling ropes in monocable aerial
         ropeways
   12.6 Guidance of towing ropes in ski-tows
13 Recovery and evacuation
   13.1 General
   13.2 Evacuation plan
   13.3 Evacuation pathway for funicular railways
   13.4 Evacuation by descending by rope
14 Miscellaneous
   14.1 Fire protection and firefighting
   14.2 Protection against lightning
   14.3 Marking of obstacles to aircraft
   14.4 Anemometers
   14.5 Materials
   14.6 Instructions for passengers
   14.7 Assembly instructions
   14.8 Operating and maintenance instructions
   14.9 Technical documents
   14.10 Lighting installations
   14.11 Radios
15 Funicular railways with automatic operation
   15.1 General
   15.2 Operation monitoring
   15.3 Fencing off the line
   15.4 Access to the line
   15.5 Evacuation
   15.6 Access to carriers
   15.7 Special safety devices on carriers
   15.8 Surveillance of the line
Annex A (normative) Explanatory sketch for 11.2
Annex B (normative) Explanatory sketch for 11.3
Annex C (normative) Technical documents
   C.1 For all installations
   C.2 For funicular railways
   C.3 For aerial ropeways
   C.4 For ski-tows
Annex D (informative) A-deviations
Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European
                       Standard and the Essential Requirements
                       of EU Directive 2000/9/EC relating to
                       cableway installations designed to carry
                       persons
Bibliography

Specifies the safety requirements for general requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons. These requirements are applied to the various types of installations and their environment.

Committee
CTN 58/SC 3
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
62
PublisherName
Asociacion Espanola de Normalizacion
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy
Supersedes

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EN 12929-2:2015 Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons - General requirements - Part 2: Additional requirements for reversible bicable aerial ropeways without carrier truck brakes
EN 349:1993+A1:2008 Safety of machinery - Minimum gaps to avoid crushing of parts of the human body
EN 1909:2017 Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons - Recovery and evacuation
EN ISO 13857:2008 Safety of machinery - Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs (ISO 13857:2008)
ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery — General principles for design — Risk assessment and risk reduction
EN 1709:2004 Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons - Precommissioning inspection, maintenance, operational inspection and checks
ISO 13857:2008 Safety of machinery Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs
EN ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction (ISO 12100:2010)
EN 13243:2015 Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons - Electrical equipment other than for drive systems
EN 12385-8:2002 Steel wire ropes - Safety - Part 8: Stranded hauling and carrying-hauling ropes for cableway installations designed to carry persons
EN 1908:2015 Safety requirements of cableway installations designed to carry persons - Tensioning devices
EN 12385-9:2002 Steel wire ropes - Safety - Part 9: Locked coil carrying ropes for cableway installations designed to carry persons

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