What is BS EN 13796-1 - Safety requirements for carriers designed to carry persons about?
BS EN 13796 discusses the safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons for carriers. BS EN 13796-1 is an international standard that provides safety requirements for carriers designed to carry persons to ensure the safety of passengers.
BS EN 13796-1 is the first part of a multi-part series that outlines the safety requirements applicable to carriers for cableway installations designed to carry persons. BS EN 13796-1 applies to the various types of installations and takes into account their environment.
BS EN 13796-1 includes requirements relating to the prevention of accidents and the protection of workers, without affecting the application of national requirements.
Note 1: National requirements relating to construction law or statutory law, or the protection of specific groups of people, shall not be affected.
Note 2: BS EN 13796-1 does not apply to installations for the transportation of goods or to lifts.
Who is BS EN 13796-1 - Safety requirements for carriers designed to carry persons for?
BS EN 13796-1 on the safety requirements for carriers designed to carry persons is useful for:
- Manufacturers and installers of cableways designed to carry persons
- Operators of cableway designed to carry persons
- Test centers
- Regulatory bodies
Why should you use BS EN 13796-1 - Safety requirements for carriers designed to carry persons?
The cableway is a system for hoisting and hauling bulk materials, consisting of a cable or pair of cables suspended between two towers, on which travels a carriage from which a bucket is suspended: used in carrying persons heavy construction work, in storage plants, etc.
BS EN 13796-1 guideline assists you with general requirements, basic requirements, list of safety components, self-weight weighing report, reaction force when entering the station, reaction force when passing around a sheave, the force due to impacts resulting from the action of the carrier truck brake, static verifications, fatigue verification, etc. for cableway installations designed to carry persons.
BS EN 13796-1 provides guidance on end fixings for ropes, end fixings for grips, carrier trucks for aerial ropeways, chassis of funicular railways, carriages for funicular railways, maintenance vehicles, tow-hangers, cabins, chairs, and other carriers of aerial ropeways for cableway installations designed to carry persons.
This assists in standardizing the performance of grips, carrier trucks, inboard brakes, cabins, chairs, carriages, maintenance carriers, tow-hangers and ensure the safety of workers and operators guiding the safety requirements.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 13796-1:2017 supersedes EN 13796-1:2005, which is withdrawn. BS EN 13796-1:2017 has made some technical changes compared to the previous edition EN 13796-1:2005. These includes:
- In 6.2.3, the subclause has been reorganized to clarify its application, and the force coefficient values for verifying the effects of wind have been changed
- In 6.2.15, 11.2.1.1, 11.2.1.2, and 12.1.2, the calculation of the walls and the definition of the loads to be taken into consideration for this calculation have been changed to take account of service experience and so as not to differentiate the dimensioning of the walls based on the position of the passengers (seated or standing)
- Clarifications of the dynamic stresses have been provided to be taken into account when carriers pass-through stations
- Addition of 6.7 concerning fire prevention and firefighting
- In 7.2.2.3, the subclause was rewritten to clarify its application