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BS EN 16808:2020

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Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. Safety of machineries. Manual elevators

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BSI 2020 36
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This document specifies general safety requirements for the design, testing and production of manually operated elevators. The requirements are applicable for on- and off-shore applications of such elevators in the petroleum and petrochemical industries.

This document deals with significant hazards, hazardous situations and events, as listed in Annex A, relevant to elevators when used as intended and under the conditions of misuse foreseeable by the manufacturer.

This document does not cover any other type of elevator. It is not applicable to the following types of products:

  • lifting nubbins;

  • lifting plugs;

  • lifting subs;

  • internal gripping devices;

  • equipment for lifting tubular from and onto a vessel;

  • elevator links or bails.

This document is not applicable to manually operated elevators manufactured before the date of this publication.

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PDF Pages PDF Title
2 undefined
8 1 Scope
2 Normative references
9 3 Terms and definitions
15 4 Abbreviated terms
5 List of significant hazards
6 Safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures
6.1 General requirements for manual elevators
16 6.2 Mechanical strength
6.3 Safety design of manual elevators
6.3.1 General
6.3.2 Ergonomic design
6.3.3 Fastening methods and DROPS prevention of parts
6.3.3.1 Primary-fixing
6.3.3.2 Securing against loosening (secondary retention)
6.3.3.3 Securing against dropping (DROPS prevention)
17 6.3.4 Suspension points
6.3.5 Moving parts, pinch points and guards
6.4 Other protective measures
6.4.1 Risks due to surfaces, edges or angles
6.4.2 Size and type verification (errors of fitting)
6.4.3 Static electricity
6.4.4 Loss of stability
18 6.4.5 Explosion prevention
6.4.6 Controls
6.4.7 Elevator coating
6.4.8 Noise
6.5 Verification of safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures
6.5.1 General
6.5.2 Service life
6.5.3 Fatigue life
19 6.5.4 Maintenance
7 Functions for preparing the elevator for a safe lift: wrapping, securing, locking and verification
7.1 General
7.2 Black box approach
20 7.3 Wrapping
7.4 Securing
21 7.5 Locking
7.6 Verification of readiness for safe lift
22 8 Closed-ring elevator
8.1 Wrapping
8.2 Securing and locking
8.3 Verification
9 Information for use
9.1 General
9.2 Instruction handbook
25 10 Marking of manual elevators
27 Annex A (informative)List of significant hazards and associated requirement
29 Annex B (normative)Verification tests for elevators
B.1 Design verification
B.1.1 Design verification test
B.1.2 Life cycle test
B.1.3 Design function testing
B.1.4 Verification of the safety requirements and/or measures
B.2 Product verification
31 Annex ZA (informative)Relation between this European Standard and the essential requirements of Directive 2006/42/EC aimed to be covered
BS EN 16808:2020
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