BS 5974:2017

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Identifying hazards
5 Planning and exchange of information
6 Responsibilities
7 Health and safety
8 Types of temporary suspended access
   equipment (TSAE)
9 Materials and component selection
10 Overturning and righting moments
11 Design criteria of the TSAE and installation
12 Identification and registration of components
   and marking of working load limits
13 Electrical requirements
14 Protection against lightning
15 Installation, commissioning, handover and
   dismantling
16 Maintenance, thorough examination and testing
   of TSAE
17 Using TSAE
18 Care of materials and equipment in storage
19 Personnel and training
Annex A (informative) - Types of platform
Annex B (informative) - Temporary suspended access
        breakdown/rescue
Annex C (normative) - Stability calculations
Annex D (normative) - Scope and nature of thorough
        examinations
Bibliography

Describes recommendations for the selection, design, installation, inspection, thorough examination, use and maintenance of temporary installed suspended access equipment/systems (TSAE), as defined in BS EN 1808.

This British Standard gives recommendations for the selection, design, installation, inspection, thorough examination, use and maintenance of temporary installed suspended access equipment/systems (TSAE), as defined in BSEN1808 .

Non‑standard installations are covered by this British Standard.

Steeplejacks and steeplejack operations are not covered by this British Standard.

This British Standard is not applicable to permanently installed suspended access equipment which are covered by BS6037‑1 .

Requirements for slung scaffolds, being TSPs on scaffold tubes or wire ropes, but which cannot be raised or lowered by the user, are given in BSEN12811‑1 .

NOTE1 BSEN1808 specifies the design and construction requirements relating to the safety of suspended access equipment and is a harmonized standard supporting the provisions of the Machinery Directive [7]. BSEN1808 is not retrospective and therefore does not relate to equipment manufactured before its introduction in1999.

NOTE2 Systems made up of equipment/components designed, supplied and taken into service prior to the existence of harmonized standards are recommended to be in accordance with the British Standards in force at the time of the equipment’s manufacture and this British Standard.