BS EN 12927-5:2004

This standard BS EN 12927-5:2004 Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry person. Ropes is classified in these ICS categories:

• 45.100 Cableway equipment

This part of EN 12927 specifies the safety requirements for the storage, transportation, installation and tensioning of ropes for installations for the transportation of passenger by rope. It also includes the requirements for adjusting, measuring and recording the condition of the rope during and on completion of the installation. It provides the safety requirements and measures to reduce the effect of hazards to the rope and possible hazards from the rope to persons and equipment during these operations. It does not apply to installations for the transportation of goods, nor to inclined lifts.