What is BS EN 2802 - Additional safety requirements for Mobile elevating work platforms about?
BS EN 280 is a series on mobile elevating work platforms. Mobile elevating work platforms is a mobile machine. BS EN 2802 specifies the additional safety requirements for MEWPs of Type 1 Group B equipped with a load lifting appliance. The load-lifting appliance is designed for lifting suspended loads only as part of the task being carried out by personnel from the work platform.
BS EN 2802 deals with the additional hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to load-lifting appliances either on the extending lifting structure or on the work platform when the MEWP and load lifting appliance are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer of the MEWP. The significant hazards covered by this document are listed in BS EN 2802.
Note: BS EN 2802 does not cover the following:
- the use of a MEWP for lifting persons as a suspended load
- the use of a MEWP for lifting suspended loads from a control position other than the work platform
- requirements for lifting accessories
- lifting or lowering of suspended loads for general materials handling as carried out by a crane
- MEWPs compliant with EN 280‑1:2022, 4.4.1.5 and/or 4.4.1.6 (enhanced stability and overload criteria)
- MEWPS others than Type1 Group B
Who is BS EN 2802 - Additional safety requirements for Mobile elevating work platforms for?
BS EN 2802 on the additional safety requirements for Mobile elevating work platforms is useful for:
- Mobile elevating work platforms manufacturers
- Transport vehicle manufacturing industry
- Design engineers
- Quality control personnel
Why should you use BS EN 2802 - Additional safety requirements for Mobile elevating work platforms?
Mobile elevating work platforms are used to move persons to work positions where they are carrying out work from the work platform, with the intention that persons are getting on and off the work platform only at access positions at ground level or on the chassis. BS EN 2802 is a harmonized standard to provide one means for Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs) of Type 1, equipped with a load lifting appliance and designed for lifting suspended loads, to conform to the essential health and safety requirements of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
BS EN 2802 is a type C standard as stated in EN ISO 12100:2010. When provisions of this type C standard are different from those which are stated in type A or B standards, the provisions of this type C standard take precedence over the provisions of the other standards, for machines that have been designed and built according to the provisions of this type C standard. The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards are covered are indicated in the scope of BS EN 2802. Load lifting appliances can be fixed load attachment points on the work platform or on the extending lifting structure where the load can be positioned in reach of the personnel on the platform and lifting equipment for lifting or lowering the load with a stationary platform. The equipment is attached to the work platform or extending structure and may have a load lifting jib. Using BS EN 2802 you can specify the additional safety requirements for Mobile elevating work platforms of Type 1 Group B equipped with a load lifting appliance.
