BS EN 1709:2004

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General requirements
  4.1 Application of this standard
  4.2 Safety principles
      4.2.1 General
      4.2.2 Hazard scenarios
      4.2.3 Safety measures
5 Verifications and pre-commissioning inspection
  5.1 Submission of the documents for the installation
      (design, implementation) including verification by
      calculation
  5.2 Submission of verification of the suitability of
      materials and components
  5.3 Pre-commissioning inspection
      5.3.1 General
      5.3.2 Verification of conformity of the installation
            with the submitted documents
      5.3.3 Check and operating test of the individual
            components, their operation with each other
            and within their local environment
      5.3.4 Operating test
      5.3.5 Report on the pre-commissioning inspection
  5.4 Delivery of required documents to the operator
  5.5 Certification of readiness for acceptance
6 Maintenance
  6.1 General
  6.2 Servicing
  6.3 Inspection
      6.3.1 General
      6.3.2 First inspection of construction works
      6.3.3 Monthly inspections
      6.3.4 Inspection in the case of intermittent operation
      6.3.5 Annual inspections
      6.3.6 Special multiannual inspections
      6.3.7 Special inspections
  6.4 Repair
  6.5 Renewal of construction works
7 Operational inspections and checks
  7.1 General
  7.2 Daily inspection and test run prior to opening to
      the public
      7.2.1 General
      7.2.2 Daily inspections
      7.2.3 Daily test run
  7.3 Checks during operation
  7.4 Operational inspections and test runs after exceptional
      events
8 Maintenance and operational inspection documentation
Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European
         Standard and the Essential Requirements of
         EU Directive 2000/9/EC relating to cableway
         installations designed to carry persons

Describes the safety requirements applicable to the pre-commissioning inspection, maintenance and operational inspections and checks of cableway installations designed to carry persons. This standard is applicable to the various types of installations and takes into account their environment.

Tha aim of this European standard is to establish the rules to the pre- commissioning inspection, maintenance and operational checks of installations for passenger transportation by rope. Its requirements will be observed taking into account the various systems and their respective environment. It includes requirements relating to worker protection. It does not apply to installations for the transportation of goods by rope or to inclined lifts. This standard doesnot deal with acceptance testing prior to opening to the public.