ISO 14693:2003 provides general principles and specifies requirements for design, manufacture and testing of new drilling and well-servicing equipment and of replacement primary load-carrying components manufactured subsequent to the publication of ISO 14693:2003.
ISO 14693:2003 is applicable to the following equipment:
-- rotary tables;
-- rotary bushings;
-- rotary slips;
-- rotary hoses;
-- piston mud-pump components;
-- drawworks components;
-- spiders not capable of use as elevators;
-- manual tongs;
-- safety clamps not used as hoisting devices;
-- power tongs, including spinning wrenches.
Annex A gives a number of standardized supplementary requirements which apply only when specified.