Published
1.1 This European Standard specifies the safety requirements for design, construction, installation, maintenance and testing of dock levellers and for safety components on dock levellers.
With the exception of:
a) dock levellers for marine and aircraft applications;
b) lifting tables;
c) vehicle mounted tail lifts.
NOTE 1 Requirements for lifting tables are laid down in EN 1570.
NOTE 2 Requirements for vehicle mounted tail lifts are laid down in EN 1756-1.
1.2 This European Standard is applicable to dock levellers which are used by persons and/or manual or power driven transport equipment (e. g. forklift trucks) as traffic paths between goods vehicles, both road vehicles and rail wagons, and parts of buildings such as loading docks. This standard does not deal with other bridging devices not shown in Figure 1.
Directives related to this standards.
Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)
Harmonized
WITHDRAWN
SSH EN 1398:2000
PUBLISHED
SSH EN 1398:2009
60.60
Standard published
Jan 1, 2009