scope:

This European prestandard defines general terms used in the safety requirements for passenger tranportation by rope. This prestandard concerns terms used in the design, manufacture, erection, maintenance and operation of the installations and is restricted to: - those terms which form part of the vocabulary specific to these installations; and - those terms, whether scientific, technical or in every day use, which have a particular meaning in this field or which it appears necessary to define in greater detail.