What is BS EN 1570-1 - Safety requirements for lifting tables about?
This is the first in a two-part European standard on safety requirements for lifting tables. Specifically, BS EN 1570-1:2022 deals with lifting tables serving no more than two fixed landings but able to pass a fixed landing, having a vertical travel speed of no more than 0,15 m/s, unless safe by position, and for raising or lowering goods (with or without operator(s) and or authorized person(s)), or for raising or lowering operator(s) and or authorized person(s) with or without goods, to positions where they can carry out work from a fixed or movable lifting table that is guided throughout its vertical travel only.
Who is BS EN 1570-1 - Safety requirements for lifting tables for?
Those responsible for the safe use and operation of lifting tables, typically in woodworking, upholstered furniture manufacturing, metalworking, warehousing and distribution, heavy machinery, transportation, and paper, printing and publishing, namely:
- Premises owners
- Employers
- Managers
- Operators
- Trainers
What does BS EN 1570-1 - Safety requirements for lifting tables cover?
BS EN 1570-1 deals with all the significant hazards pertinent to lifting tables when used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer.
In particular, BS EN 1570-1 specifies the appropriate technical measures for eliminating and reducing the risks arising from significant hazards.
Why should you use BS EN 1570-1 - Safety requirements for lifting tables?
- It increases the safety with which lifting tables can be used
- It has been updated to ensure conformance with the essential safety requirements stipulated under the EU Directive 2006/42/EC
- It now includes a greater emphasis on protecting the public when lifting tables are used in public areas
- It now includes a greater emphasis on the use of lifting tables for non-industrial applications
- Its use can improve users’ efficiency
- Its use can increase confidence in the equipment and strengthen risk management
What’s new about BS EN 1570-1 - Safety requirements for lifting tables?
This is a revision of BS EN 1570-1:2011+A1:2014. The main changes in BS EN 1570-1:2022 are:
- The inclusion of lifting tables for non-industrial applications, Static Elevating Work Platforms, and lifting tables used in Skillet lines or Autonomous Ground Vehicles
- The addition of the ability to pass a fixed landing and to carry authorised persons when under operator control
- The introduction of rated and structural loads
- The replacement of BS EN 1570-1:2011+A1:2014, Table 3 – Lift installation safeguard requirements with new flow charts within Annex I – Guide to travel zone risks
- Where appropriate, risk of falling is now associated with the height of fall rather than the travel height of the machine
- Greater emphasis is put on protection of the public when the lifting tables are used in public accessible areas
- Boom barriers are reintroduced and there’s improved clarity on interlocking and locking requirements for removable guardrails
- Locking of the lift table when at an upper fixed landing is added
- Overload monitoring limits due to the lack of appropriate state of the art equipment are relaxed
- New restrictions are introduced on the use of pipe rupture protection devices in hydraulic systems
- Rigid/pusher chains are introduced and pneumatic drives removed
