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BS 4322:1968

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Recommendations for buffering on hospital vehicles such as trolleys

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English

Published date

25-07-1968

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Gives advice on fitting various movable equipment, mainly trolleys, with buffering to prevent damage to the fabric of the hospital and between the trolleys themselves in the event of a collision.

Committee
CH/100
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes 67/21936 DC (08/2005) Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, October 2012. (09/2012)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
8
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current

1.1 The scope of these recommendations is confined to buffer-type protection principally relating to British Standard trolleys, but the suggested methods might be adapted to suit other equipment used in hospitals. 1.2 The purpose of the buffering is to give, as far as possible, reasonable protection to the hospital building structure, other equipment and also to the vehicle itself. 1.3 For the purpose of considering buffering the equipment has been divided into three categories: Fully mobile. This group includes patient trolleys, wheel chairs and similar vehicles moved between wards and other, departments. Semi-mobile. Equipment which is normally wheeled about within a limited area, e.g. instrument trolleys. Stationary. Equipment which, whilst on wheels or castors, is not normally wheeled about but is moved for cleaning and repositioning. 1.4 In considering the above it is suggested that the three categories could be further sub-divided into \'light\' and \'heavy\' to suit the local conditions and it is readily appreciated that it is the latter equipment, particularly when fully loaded, which can cause the greater damage upon collision with the walls, doors or each other.

Standards Relationship
UNE-EN 60300-3-12:2006 Identical

BS 5853:1980 Specification for medicine trolleys
BS 1979:1985 Specification for hospital ward bedsteads for psychiatric hospitals
BS 2718:1979 Specification for gas cylinder trolleys
BS 4068:1977 Specification for hospital trolleys for instruments, dressings and for anaesthetists\' use including angular trolleys
BS 4886:1988 Specification for hospital bedsteads
BS 5402:1976 Specification for patient trolleys

BS 2571:1963 Specification for flexible PVC compounds

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