BS EN 61477:2009

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Characteristics of tools
5 Conditions of use
6 Conditions for maintenance
7 Conditions for storage and transportation
Annex ZA (normative) - Normative references to international
         publications with their corresponding European
         publications
Annex ZB (informative) - A-deviations
Bibliography

Provides the minimum requirements relative to specification, manufacture, selection, application and maintenance of tools, devices and equipment for live working.

This International Standard gives the minimum requirements relative to specification, manufacture, selection, application and maintenance of tools, devices and equipment for live working.

It provides the type of information which is useful to skilled persons in order to make the use of tools, devices and equipment safer.

This type of information includes:

• the characteristics of tools, devices and equipment;

• their conditions for use;

• their conditions for maintenance;

• their conditions for storage and transportation.

Such information may be given in standards, manufacturer’s instructions for use and in internal regulations set forth by companies for their own employees.

Such information should be completed by work methods, which are excluded from the scope of this standard.

In this standard, the word tool(s) is used for “tools, devices and equipment for live working” unless otherwise specified.