SIST EN 13814-1:2019/oprA1:2023
(Amendment)Safety of amusement rides and amusement devices - Part 1: Design and manufacture
Safety of amusement rides and amusement devices - Part 1: Design and manufacture
This document specifies the minimum requirements necessary to ensure the safe design, calculation, manufacture, and installation of mobile, temporary or permanently installed machinery and structures which are intended for use by persons as a leisure activity, e.g. roundabouts, swings, boats, ferris wheels, roller coasters, chutes, booths, side shows, and structures for artistic aerial displays. The above items are hereafter called amusement devices, which are intended to be installed both repeatedly without degradation or loss of integrity, and temporarily or permanently in fairgrounds and amusement parks or any other locations. Grandstands, construction site installations, scaffolding, removable agricultural structures, simple coin operated children's amusement devices, carrying up to three children, and recreational devices like waterslides or summer toboggan runs, playground equipment, rope courses, climbing wall, inflatable, trampolines, swimming pool equipment (this list is not exhaustive) are not covered by this document.
For all the equipment not covered by the requirements of EN 13814-1, the relevant standards apply.
Nevertheless this document can be used in the design of any similar structural or passenger carrying amusement device not explicitly mentioned herein.
In terms of workers’ health and safety, national regulations apply.
This document is applicable to manufacturing and major modification of amusement devices and rides for designs after the effective date of publication.
Sicherheit von Fahrgeschäften und Vergnügungseinrichtungen - Teil 1: Konstruktion, Bemessung und Herstellung
Sécurité des manèges et des dispositifs de divertissement - Partie 1 : Conception et fabrication
Varnost naprav in opreme v zabaviščnih parkih - 1. del: Načrtovanje in izdelava
General Information
- Status
- Not Published
- Public Enquiry End Date
- 05-Dec-2023
- Technical Committee
- I13 - Imaginarni 13
- Current Stage
- 4020 - Public enquire (PE) (Adopted Project)
- Start Date
- 11-Oct-2023
- Due Date
- 28-Feb-2024
- Completion Date
- 13-Dec-2023
Relations
- Effective Date
- 22-May-2024
- Effective Date
- 31-Aug-2022
Overview
EN 13814-1:2019/prA1 (CEN) is a European standard amendment draft focused on the safety of amusement rides and amusement devices - Part 1: Design and manufacture. It specifies minimum requirements for the safe design, calculation, manufacture and installation of mobile, temporary or permanently installed amusement machinery and structures intended for passenger use (e.g., roundabouts, swings, boats, Ferris wheels, roller coasters, chutes and artistic aerial displays). The document applies to new designs and major modifications after its effective publication. Workers’ health and safety remain subject to national regulations. Certain items (playground equipment, waterslides, temporary grandstands, simple coin-operated devices, scaffoldings, etc.) are excluded and covered by other relevant standards.
Key Topics and Technical Requirements
- Structural design and analysis: Stability, buckling (bar, plate, shell and torsional), ultimate and serviceability limit states and material characteristic stresses.
- Load cases: Definitions and treatment of vertical, horizontal, rotating and unbalanced loads (including one-sided loading sectors for rotating devices).
- Fasteners and bolts: Specified pre-stressing forces and tightening torques; references to bolt standards (EN 14399, EN ISO 4014/4017/4032) and specific guidance on bolt selection and use.
- Passenger containment & safety envelopes: Minimum vertical and lateral safety distances, classification of passenger restraint devices and requirements for guards, doors and access openings (e.g., gondola barrier heights: 1.1 m typical; reduced values for specific child-only conditions).
- Ropes, chains and suspensions: Material restrictions and requirements for special investigations where non-steel materials are proposed.
- Special equipment rules: Specific guidance for dodgem cars (distances and electromechanical supply), flume boat pinch-point considerations (120 mm rule) and other ride types.
- Documentation and validation: System validation, safety integrity and design verification (annex and normative guidance included in amendment text).
Applications and Who Uses It
This standard is essential for:
- Ride designers and structural engineers creating new amusement devices or modifying existing equipment.
- Manufacturers responsible for fabrication, bolting, welding and assembly.
- Amusement park owners and operators planning installations, layout and passenger access.
- Inspection bodies and conformity assessors verifying compliance during design and manufacture.
- Safety managers and maintenance teams using the design limits to define maintenance regimes.
Related Standards (if applicable)
- EN 13814 Parts 2 & 3 (Operation, maintenance and inspection requirements)
- EN 1176‑1, EN 1177 (fall protection references)
- EN 13796‑1 (closed cabins/gondolas)
- Bolt standards referenced: EN 14399 series, EN ISO 4014/4017/4032
Keywords: EN 13814-1, amusement rides safety, design and manufacture, CEN standard, safety envelope, passenger restraint, bolt requirements, ride design, amusement device standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
SIST EN 13814-1:2019/oprA1:2023 is a draft published by the Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST). Its full title is "Safety of amusement rides and amusement devices - Part 1: Design and manufacture". This standard covers: This document specifies the minimum requirements necessary to ensure the safe design, calculation, manufacture, and installation of mobile, temporary or permanently installed machinery and structures which are intended for use by persons as a leisure activity, e.g. roundabouts, swings, boats, ferris wheels, roller coasters, chutes, booths, side shows, and structures for artistic aerial displays. The above items are hereafter called amusement devices, which are intended to be installed both repeatedly without degradation or loss of integrity, and temporarily or permanently in fairgrounds and amusement parks or any other locations. Grandstands, construction site installations, scaffolding, removable agricultural structures, simple coin operated children's amusement devices, carrying up to three children, and recreational devices like waterslides or summer toboggan runs, playground equipment, rope courses, climbing wall, inflatable, trampolines, swimming pool equipment (this list is not exhaustive) are not covered by this document. For all the equipment not covered by the requirements of EN 13814-1, the relevant standards apply. Nevertheless this document can be used in the design of any similar structural or passenger carrying amusement device not explicitly mentioned herein. In terms of workers’ health and safety, national regulations apply. This document is applicable to manufacturing and major modification of amusement devices and rides for designs after the effective date of publication.
This document specifies the minimum requirements necessary to ensure the safe design, calculation, manufacture, and installation of mobile, temporary or permanently installed machinery and structures which are intended for use by persons as a leisure activity, e.g. roundabouts, swings, boats, ferris wheels, roller coasters, chutes, booths, side shows, and structures for artistic aerial displays. The above items are hereafter called amusement devices, which are intended to be installed both repeatedly without degradation or loss of integrity, and temporarily or permanently in fairgrounds and amusement parks or any other locations. Grandstands, construction site installations, scaffolding, removable agricultural structures, simple coin operated children's amusement devices, carrying up to three children, and recreational devices like waterslides or summer toboggan runs, playground equipment, rope courses, climbing wall, inflatable, trampolines, swimming pool equipment (this list is not exhaustive) are not covered by this document. For all the equipment not covered by the requirements of EN 13814-1, the relevant standards apply. Nevertheless this document can be used in the design of any similar structural or passenger carrying amusement device not explicitly mentioned herein. In terms of workers’ health and safety, national regulations apply. This document is applicable to manufacturing and major modification of amusement devices and rides for designs after the effective date of publication.
SIST EN 13814-1:2019/oprA1:2023 is classified under the following ICS (International Classification for Standards) categories: 97.200.40 - Playgrounds. The ICS classification helps identify the subject area and facilitates finding related standards.
SIST EN 13814-1:2019/oprA1:2023 has the following relationships with other standards: It is inter standard links to SIST EN 13814-1:2019+A1:2024, SIST EN 13814-1:2019. Understanding these relationships helps ensure you are using the most current and applicable version of the standard.
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Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-december-2023
Varnost naprav in opreme v zabaviščnih parkih - 1. del: Načrtovanje in izdelava
Safety of amusement rides and amusement devices - Part 1: Design and manufacture
Sicherheit von Fahrgeschäften und Vergnügungseinrichtungen - Teil 1: Konstruktion,
Bemessung und Herstellung
Sécurité des manèges et des dispositifs de divertissement - Partie 1 : Conception et
fabrication
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 13814-1:2019/prA1
ICS:
97.200.40 Igrišča Playgrounds
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
DRAFT
EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 13814-1:2019
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
prA1
September 2023
ICS 97.200.40
English Version
Safety of amusement rides and amusement devices - Part
1: Design and manufacture
Sécurité des manèges et des dispositifs de Sicherheit von Fahrgeschäften und
divertissement - Partie 1 : Conception et fabrication Vergnügungseinrichtungen - Teil 1: Konstruktion,
Bemessung und Herstellung
This draft amendment is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 152.
This draft amendment A1, if approved, will modify the European Standard EN 13814-1:2019. If this draft becomes an
amendment, CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for
inclusion of this amendment into the relevant national standard without any alteration.
This draft amendment was established by CEN in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other
language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and
United Kingdom.
Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are
aware and to provide supporting documentation.
Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without
notice and shall not be referred to as a European Standard.
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worldwide for CEN national Members.
Contents Page
European foreword . 4
1 Modification to 4.1.5, "Principles of analysis" . 5
2 Modification to 4.2.7, "Fasteners for structural components" . 5
3 Modification to 4.3.3.1.2.1, "Passenger carrying units (vehicles, cars, gondolas)" . 5
4 Modifications to 4.3.3.1.2.2, "Other vertical loads" . 5
5 Modification to 4.3.3.1.2.3, "Horizontal imposed loads" . 5
6 Modification to 4.4.2.1, "Conditions for calculating rotating type amusement
devices". 6
7 Modifications to 4.7.2, "Predominantly static stress" . 6
8 Modifications to 4.7.4, "Bolts" . 6
9 Modification to 4.7.5.1.2, "Ropes and chains under fluctuating loads (suspension of
passenger carrying devices e.g. chairs, gondolas)" . 7
10 Modifications to 5.1.4.1.1, "General" . 7
11 Modification to 5.1.6.1.1, "General" . 7
12 Modifications to 5.1.7.1.3, "Minimum dimensions of Safety Envelope" . 8
13 Modifications to 5.1.7.1.4, "Minimum safety distances between passenger
containments" . 9
14 Modification to 5.1.7.2.3 "Classification of passenger restraint devices" . 10
15 Modification to 5.2.2.3, "Passenger units" . 10
16 Modifications to 5.2.4.1, "General" . 10
17 Modifications to 5.2.4.5, "Electromechanical requirements for dodgem cars" . 11
18 Modification to 5.2.8.1, "Area separation system and access and egress" . 11
19 Modifications to 5.2.9.5, “Miscellaneous” . 11
20 Deletion of 5.2.10.5, "Temporary grandstands" . 12
21 Modifications to 5.2.10.6, "Maneges" . 12
22 Modification to 5.8.2 "Content" . 12
23 Modifications to A.1.7, "Communication system" . 12
24 Modifications to A.2.4.2, “Safety integrity requirements”. 12
25 Modification to A.2.8.4 “System Validation” . 13
26 Modification to Annex C, “Guidance on design of passenger containment” . 13
27 Modification to I.2.2.1, “Limitations / excluded influences” . 14
28 Modifications to I.2.3, "Acceleration in X-Direction" . 14
29 Modifications to I.2.6, "Combinations" . 16
30 Modifications to I.3.2, "Transitions in Z" . 17
31 Modification to I.4, "Example obtaining admissible accelerations" . 18
32 Modification to Bibliography. 18
European foreword
This document (EN 13814-1:2019/prA1:2023) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 152
“Fairground and amusement park machinery and structures - Safety”, the secretariat of which is held by
UNI.
This document is currently submitted to the CEN Enquiry.
EN 13814 consists of the following parts, under the general title “Safety of amusement rides and
amusement devices”:
— Part 1: Design and manufacture
— Part 2: Operation, maintenance and use
— Part 3: Requirements for inspection during design, manufacture, operation and use
1 Modification to 4.1.5, "Principles of analysis"
th rd
Replace the 5 paragraph, 3 bullet
"stability limit states analysis: i.e. bar buckling, plate and shell buckling;"
with
"stability limit states analysis: i.e. bar buckling, plate, shell and torsional buckling;".
2 Modification to 4.2.7, "Fasteners for structural components"
rd
Replace the 3 sentence of the subclause
"For machinery and mechanisms other bolts according to appropriate standards may be used."
with
"For machinery and mechanisms calculated bolts according to 4.7.4 may be used.".
3 Modification to 4.3.3.1.2.1, "Passenger carrying units (vehicles, cars,
gondolas)"
Replace the sentence below Note 2
"The designer should consider possible higher weight depending on the seat configuration, type of ride
and anthropometric data."
with
"The designer may need to consider possible higher weight depending on the seat configuration,
unbalanced load-situation, type of ride and anthropometric data.".
4 Modifications to 4.3.3.1.2.2, "Other vertical loads"
Below "Universal, public access:” delete the following paragraphs:
" Q = 5, 0 kN / m for grandstands and their stairways and landings with fixed seats; and as a superior
k
value, if particularly dense crowds are anticipated for the above-mentioned categories;
Q = 7,5 kN / m for grandstands and their stairways and landings without seats or non-fixed seats;
k
and as a superior value, if particularly dense crowds are anticipated for the above-mentioned
categories;"
Below "Universal, public access:” replace in the last paragraph
" Q = 1,5 kN / m "
k
with
" Q = 1,5 kN / m ".
k
5 Modification to 4.3.3.1.2.3, "Horizontal imposed loads"
Change the number of the subclause from "4.3.3.1.2.3" to "4.3.3.1.3".
6 Modification to 4.4.2.1, "Conditions for calculating rotating type amusement
devices"
Replace the first paragraph
"Amusement devices shall be calculated in operative, inoperative, fully loaded, partially loaded and
unbalanced conditions. One-sided loading shall be assumed as meaning that at only those seats which
are situated on 1/4 or 3/4 of the perimeter are occupied. The verification of the ultimate limit state
shall be carried out for these one-sided loading conditions."
with
"Amusement devices shall be calculated in operative, inoperative, fully loaded, partially loaded and
unbalanced conditions. One-sided loading shall be assumed as meaning that at only those seats which
are situated on 1/4 or 3/4 of the perimeter are occupied. The corresponding sector portions shall be
selected for the most unfavourable case, and the seats situated at the edge of the sector concerned shall
be included in the count. The verification of the ultimate limit state shall be carried out for these one-
sided loading conditions.".
7 Modifications to 4.7.2, "Predominantly static stress"
st
Replace the 1 sentence
"Characteristic stresses of materials used for structural components shall be taken from 4.2."
with
"Characteristic stresses of materials used for components shall be taken from 4.2.".
nd
sentence
Replace the 2
"With regard to general stress analysis of machinery components made of steel, including components
which act simultaneously as structural components, the following relationships shall apply:"
with
"With regard to general stress analysis of components made of steel, including components acting as
structural components, the following relationships shall apply:".
8 Modifications to 4.7.4, "Bolts"
Replace the title of Table 6
"Pre-stressing forces and tightening torques for bolts EN 14399-4/EN 14399-6/EN ISO 4014/
EN ISO 4017"
with
"Pre-stressing forces and tightening torques for bolts EN 14399-4/EN 14399-6/
EN ISO 4014/EN ISO 4017/EN ISO 4032".
rd
In Table 6, in the 3 column, replace
"Bolting assemblies according to EN 14399-4/EN 14399-6"
with
"Bolting assemblies according to EN 14399-4
...
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