scope:

Deals with power operated temporarily installed builders hoists intended for use by persons who are permitted to enter sites of engineering and construction, serving defined landing levels, having a cage: - designed for the transportation of persons or of persons and materials, - guided, - travelling vertically or along a path within 15 degrees max. of the vertical, - supported or sustained by: wire rope, chain, screwed spindle and nut, rack and pinion, hydraulic jack (direct or indirect), or an expanding linkage mechanism, - where mast may or may not require support from separate structures. The standard identifies hazards arising during the various phases in the life of such equipment and describes methods for the elimination or reduction of these hazards. This standard deals with the complete hoist installation. It includes the base frame but excludes the design of any concrete, hard core, timber or other foundation arrangement. It includes the design of mast ties but excludes the design of anchorage bolts to the supporting structure. It includes the landing gates their frames and surrounds but excludes the design of any anchorage fixing bolts to the supporting structure.