This standard specifies technical safety requirements and measures for all types and sizes of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) intended to move persons to working positions.
This standard is applicable to the structural design and stability calculation, construction, safety examinations and tests of MEWPs. It identifies the hazards arising from the use of MEWPs and describes methods for the elimination or reduction of these hazards.
This standard is not applicable to:
a) Lift and hydraulic lift (see EN 81-1 and EN 81-2);
b) Fire-fighting and fire rescue appliances (see EN 1777);
c) High-altitude work hanging cage and window-cleaning machine (see EN 1808);
d) Elevating operator position on rail-dependent storage and retrieval equipment (see EN 528);
e) Tail lifts (see EN 1756-1 and EN 1756-2);
f) Mast-climbing work platforms (see ISO 16369);
g) Fairground equipment;
h) Lifting tables with a lifting height of less than 2m (see EN 1570);
i) Builders' hoists for persons and materials (see EN 12159);
j) Aircraft ground-support equipment (see EN 1915-1 and EN 1915-2);
k) Digger derricks (lifting hole diggers) (see ANSI A10.31);
l) Elevating operator positions on industrial trucks (see EN 1726-2);
m) Under-bridge inspection and maintenance devices (see ANSI A92.8);
n) Stock-picking or order-picking type equipment.
It does not cover the hazards arising from:
——operation by radio and other wireless controls;
——use in potentially explosive atmospheres;
——electromagnetic incompatibility;
——work on live electrical systems (see IEC 61057);
——use of compressed gases for load-bearing components.
