ISBN-10: 0580530868
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Quickly suspended entry gear (TSAE) help or include staff operating at peak on engineering and development websites. BS 5974 provides assistance and proposals on fitting (erecting, changing and dismantling), retaining, interpreting and utilizing TSAE in a secure demeanour. It additionally units out the tasks of all employees fascinated with operating with TSAE.
BS 5974 makes concepts for the choice, layout, deploy, inspection, use and upkeep of quickly put in suspended entry equipment/systems (TSAE), as outlined in BS EN 1808. Non-standard installations also are lined by way of this code.
TSAE could be a operating platform or systems, paintings cage or chair suspended from a suspension rig which might be assembled on the office, used to hold out particular initiatives. TSAE will then be dismantled and faraway from where of labor while the explicit projects are whole for use elsewhere.
The apparatus talked about in BS 5974 is sometimes suspended from metal twine ropes which are connected to the outriggers of a suspension rig or different appropriate high-level anchor aspect. it truly is able to being raised or reduced through a winch or mountaineering machine that may be connected both to the operating platform(s), paintings cage or chair or be included into the suspension rig. The lifting equipment or home equipment will be manually or strength operated. In sure situations, the TSAE could be integrated right into a procedure that permits it to be traversed horizontally.
Steeplejacks and steeplejack operations usually are not lined in BS 5974. It additionally doesn't conceal completely put in suspended entry apparatus, that gear is roofed by means of BS 6037-1.
Requirements for slung scaffolds, being operating systems on scaffold tubes or cord ropes yet which can't be raised or decreased via the person, are contained in BS EN 12811-1.
This model of BS 5974 is an entire revision of the traditional, and introduces adjustments end result of the following:
• alterations in laws, particularly the creation of the Lifting Operations and Lifting gear rules (LOLER) 1998
• Advances in technology.
This model of BS 5974 replaces BS 5974:1990, that's now withdrawn.
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Exceptional circumstances, however, might necessitate a thorough examination and might include: a) modification and/or significant repairs to the TSAE including the replacement of load bearing parts; b) occurrence of an overload during use; c) occurrence of structural damage; d) an accident or dangerous occurrence; e) failure of a load bearing component. 6 Periodic thorough examinations of TSAE The scope and nature of each periodic thorough examination is at the discretion of the competent person (thorough examination).
All materials should be removed from the TSAE prior to an aerial transfer being carried out and no other person should be allowed on the TSAE during the operations other than the installers actually carrying out the work. The area under the TSAE and its new working position should be protected by appropriate signing and barriers to prevent unintentional access. The repositioning should be carried out using the platform’s secondary safety system as a positive anchor. All operatives should be harnessed to structurally sound independent anchor points when carrying out an aerial transfer.
The design and installation of the electrical power supply should be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the current edition of BS 7671 and BS 7375. 3 Earthing The protective conductors (earth circuit) of the equipment should be connected to the electrical supply earth terminal only when it has been verified that this terminal provides an efficient, effective © BSI 2010 • 35 BS 5974:2010 BRITISH STANDARD and reliable earth path. Where WPs or suspended scaffolds use mains voltage on structures and buildings under construction, it is recommended that one of the following apply.
BS 5974:2010: Code of practice for the planning, design, setting up and use of temporary suspended access equipment
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