BS EN 14043:2014 - Page 3

High rise aerial appliances for fire and rescue service use. Turntable ladders with combined movements. Safety and performance requirements and test methods. | Status: Current, Under review

1 Scope 1.1 This European Standard specifies the safety and performance requirements and test methods applicable to turntable ladders with combined movements of classes 18, 24, 30 and > 30 to 56, as defined in 3.13, under the control of fire-fighters and intended for fire fighting and rescuing people.

NOTE This European Standard is intended to be used in conjunction with EN 1846‑1, EN 1846‑2 and EN 1846‑3.

Turntable ladder vehicles comprise a chassis, bodywork and a powered extending structure unit in the form of a ladder with or without a rescue cage. Turntable ladder vehicles covered by this European Standard have a self-propelled chassis, the motor of which supplies the power necessary for the operation of the ladder and permits all of the operational movements to be made simultaneously, with no restriction on the angle of the slewing movement.