International Organization for Standardization

Mobile elevating work platforms — Design, calculations, safety requirements and test methods - Second Edition
 N 16368

Annotation

This International Standard specifies safety requirements and preventive measures, and the means for their verification, for all types and sizes of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) intended for moving persons to working positions. It gives the structural design calculations and stability criteria, construction, safety examinations and security tests to be applied before a MEWP is first put into service, identifies the hazards arising from the use of MEWPs and describes methods for the elimination or reduction of those hazards.

This International Standard is not applicable to

a) permanently installed personnel-lifting appliances serving defined levels,

b) fire-fighting and fire rescue appliances,

c) unguided work cages suspended from lifting appliances,

d) elevating operator position on rail-dependent storage and retrieval equipment,

e) tail lifts,

f) mast-climbing work platforms (see ISO 16369),

g) fairground equipment,

h) lifting tables with a lifting height of less than 2 m,

i) builder's hoists for persons and materials,

j) aircraft ground-support equipment,

k) digger derricks,