scope:

This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to lifting devices, as defined in clause 3.1, used for the emptying of designated waste containers into RCVs and their fitting onto the RCV when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer or his authorised representative (see Clause 4).
This prEN 1501-5 describes and gives the requirements of the lifting devices for emptying waste containers and shall be used in conjunction with the parts 1, 2 and 3 of the series of standards EN 1501 for the rear, side and front loaded RCVs and their interfaces. It refers to EN 1501-4 for the noise test code.
This European standard is not applicable to:
- operation in severe conditions e.g. extreme environmental conditions such as: ¾ below - 25 °C and above + 40 °C temperatures; ¾ tropical environment; ¾ wind velocity in excess of 75 km/h; ¾ contaminating environment;
- corrosive environment;
- operation in potentially explosive atmospheres; ¾ lifting and transportation of persons;
- emptying waste containers other than those manufactured according to EN 840 series, EN 12574 series, EN 13071, and those described as Paladin, Diamond, Skip;
- handling of loads the nature of which could lead to dangerous situations (e.g. hot wastes, acids and bases, radioactive materials, especially fragile loads, explosives);
- operation on ships;
- fitting and operation on stationary compactors.
This document is not applicable to machinery which is manufactured before the date of its publication by CEN.