This document specifies the safety requirements applicable to: — Selection criteria for ropes and their end fixings — Safety factors (excluding brake ropes) — Discard criteria — Storage, handling, transportation and installation (including tensioning, connecting and/or splicing) — Long splicing of 6 strand haulage, carrying-hauling rope and carrying-hauling rope (for ski-tow) — End fixings — Maintenance and the minimum requirements applicable to: — MRT, visual and radiographic equipment and procedures for the examination of steel wire ropes.