BS 5974:2010

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 Righting and overturning 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 TSAEs
18 Care of materials and equipment in store
19 Personnel and training
Annexes
Annex A (normative) - Stability calculations
Annex B (normative) - Scope and nature of thorough
        examinations
Bibliography

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

This code of practice makes recommendations for the selection, design, installation, inspection, use and maintenance of temporarily installed suspended access equipment/systems (TSAE), as defined in BS EN 1808. Non-standard installations are covered by this code.

Steeplejacks and steeplejack operations are not covered in this standard.

This British Standard does not cover permanently installed suspended access equipment, that equipment is covered by BS 6037-1.

Requirements for slung scaffolds, being working platforms on scaffold tubes or wire ropes but which cannot be raised or lowered by the user, are contained in BS EN 12811-1.

NOTE BS EN 1808 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]. BS EN 1808 is not retrospective and therefore does not relate to equipment manufactured before its introduction in 1999.