What is BS EN 60204-32 – Safety of machinery about?
BS EN 60204-32 is a European standard and a part of the BS EN 60204 series that discusses the requirements for hoisting machines for electrical equipment of machines for the safety of machinery. Safeguards are essential to protect workers from injury. Any machine part, function, or process that might cause injury should be safeguarded.
BS EN 60204-32 applies to the application of electrical and electronic equipment and systems to hoisting machines and related equipment. The equipment covered by BS EN 60204-32 commences at the point of connection of the supply to the electrical equipment of the hoisting machine including systems for power supply and control feeders situated outside of the hoisting machine, for example, flexible cables or conductor wires or conductor bars.
The purpose of BS EN 60204-32, hoisting machines include cranes of all types, winches of all types, and storage and retrieval machines. The following product groups are included: Overhead travelling cranes, Mobile cranes, Tower cranes, slewing luffing cranes, Gantry cranes, Offshore cranes, Floating cranes, Winches of all types, Hoists and accessories, Loader cranes, Cable cranes, Load holding devices, Storage and retrieval machines, Monorail hoists, Straddle hoists, Rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs).
Note: BS EN 60204-32 does not cover individual items of electrical equipment other than their selection for use and their erection.
Who is BS EN 60204-32 – Safety of machinery for?
BS EN 60204-32 on hoisting machines for the safety of machinery applies to:
- Maintenance personnel
- Manufacturer of machinery products
- Engineers
Why should you use BS EN 60204-32 – Safety of machinery?
A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load using a drum or lift wheel around which rope or chain wraps. Machinery is an assembly of linked parts or components, at least one of which moves, with the appropriate machine actuators, control and power circuits, joined together for a specific application, in particular for the processing, treatment, moving or packaging of a material.
BS EN 60204-32 provides guidance that is intended to apply to electrical equipment used with a wide variety of hoisting machines and with a group of hoisting machines working together in a coordinated manner.
BS EN 60204-32 provides you with a single hoisting machine in which the breaking capacity is sufficient for you to switch off the sum of the current under stalled rotor condition of the largest drive and the normal running currents of the other drives that can be operating at the same time.
With BS EN 60204-32 you can be ensured that the products consistently meet and exceed quality assurance targets for hoisting machines.
