2016/424/EU - REGULATION (EU) 2016/424 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 March 2016 on cableway installations and repealing Directive 2000/9/EC

This document sets the safety requirements that need to be met in relation to pre-commissioning inspections and the instructions for maintenance and operational inspections and checks of cableway installations designed to transport persons. This document is applicable to the various types of cableway installation and takes into account their environment.
It also includes requirements relating to accident prevention and to the protection of workers irrespective of the application of national regulations.
National regulations regarding building laws or regulations or which afford protection to specific groups of people, as well as national regulations regarding testing, acceptance testing prior to starting passenger service, maintenance and operational inspection shall remain unaffected.
It does not apply to cableway installations for the transportation of goods or to lifts.
The provisions of Clause 5 apply to the measures to be taken prior to the commissioning of the installation, and those of Clauses 6 and 7 to the measures to be taken during operation.
This document does not apply to cableway installations designed to transport persons that were manufactured before the publication of this EN standard.

This European standard establishes the safety requirements that apply to prevention and fight against fire in cableway installations designed to carry persons.
This standard defines safety principles relating to the prevention of and fight against fires in terms of design, operability and maintainability of cableway installations, and operation and maintenance instructions.
This document supplements the existing standards listed in the foreword exclusively in respect of aspects of fire prevention and firefighting.
This standard does not apply to cableway installations for the transportation of goods nor to lifts.

This European Standard is applicable to earplugs supplemented by a safety-related audio input. It specifies requirements on construction, design, performance, marking and user information related to the inclusion of the safety-related audio input.

This European Standard is applicable to earplugs supplemented by a safety-related audio input. It specifies requirements on construction, design, performance, marking and user information related to the inclusion of the safety-related audio input.