BS 5974:2017

This standard BS 5974:2017 Planning, design, setting up and use of temporary suspended access equipment. Code of practice is classified in these ICS categories:

• 91.220 Construction equipment

This British Standard gives recommendations for the selection, design, installation, inspection, thorough examination, use and maintenance of temporary installed suspended access equipment/systems (TSAE), as defined in BS EN 1808 .

Non‑standard installations are covered by this British Standard.

Steeplejacks and steeplejack operations are not covered by this British Standard.

This British Standard is not applicable to permanently installed suspended access equipment which are covered by BS 6037‑1 .

Requirements for slung scaffolds, being TSPs on scaffold tubes or wire ropes, but which cannot be raised or lowered by the user, are given in BS EN 12811‑1 .

NOTE 1 BS EN 1808 specifies the design and construction requirements relating to the safety of suspended access equipment and is a harmonized standard supporting the provisions of the Machinery Directive [7]. BS EN 1808 is not retrospective and therefore does not relate to equipment manufactured before its introduction in 1999.

NOTE 2 Systems made up of equipment/components designed, supplied and taken into service prior to the existence of harmonized standards are recommended to be in accordance with the British Standards in force at the time of the equipment’s manufacture and this British Standard.