What is ISO 13993 — Rental ski shop practice about?
ISO 13993 is an international standard that covers requirements for good quality ski boots.
ISO 13993 specifies a uniform method for the sampling and inspection of complete and incomplete alpine ski-binding-boot systems used in rental operations. It gives technical specifications such as terms, definition, range classes, a summary of practice, equipment inspection requirements, sampling requirements, sampling, and inspection procedures for rental ski shop practice.
ISO 13993 is intended for any facility which rents complete and incomplete alpine ski-binding-boot systems as when the skier owns the boots.
Note 1: ISO 13993 is not applicable for alpine touring ski-binding-boot systems.
Note 2: ISO 13993 is not applicable for complete and incomplete alpine ski-binding-boot systems which are rented for 15 days or more.
Who is ISO 13993— Rental ski shop practice for?
ISO 13993 on rental ski shop practice is useful for:
- Ski-boots manufactures
- Ski instructors
- Ski organizations / resorts
Why should you use ISO 13993— Rental ski shop practice?
Ski boots are footwear used in skiing to provide a way to attach a skier to skis using ski-binding.
Ski boots/binding is used to effectively transmit control input from the skier’s leg to show.
ISO 13993 provides you with guidelines for performing functional inspections and adjustments of alpine ski-binding-boot systems. Adhering to these guidelines helps you to reduce the risk of injuries resulting from improper mechanical functioning of releasable binding systems.
ISO 13993 gives you specifications about range classes and a summary of practice that gives you an overview of the rental procedure. It enables the users, a test device to inspect boots and bindings for compatibility and interchangeability.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS ISO 13993:2019 supersedes BS ISO 13993:2001, which is withdrawn. The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows:
- The range classes are presented in a new Clause 4, a new Clause 5 has been added with a summary of the practice
- The difference between preseason inspection and in-season inspection has been clarified, a new simplified pre-season inspection has been added for certain combinations of equipment in the inventory where at least one component is unused
- Sampling requirements have been specified in Clause 7, the test for elastic travel and recentring in A.1.1 has been simplified
- A new Annex B has been added for range class I deviations and sample sizes, terms, and definitions in Clause 3 have been revised and new terms have been added where appropriate
- Normative references in Clause 2 have been updated, the text has been editorially revised
