This International Standard specifies technical safety requirements and measures for all types and sizes of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) intended to move persons to working positions.
This International Standard is applicable to the structural design calculations and stability criteria, construction, safety examinations and security tests before MEWPs are first put into service. It identifies the hazards arising from the use of MEWPs and describes methods for the elimination or reduction of these hazards.
It does not cover the hazards arising from
— operation by radio and other wireless controls,
— use in potentially explosive atmospheres,
— electromagnetic incompatibility,
— work on live electrical systems (see I EC 61057),
— use of compressed gases for load-bearing components.
This International Standard is not applicable to
a) permanently installed personnel-lifting appliances serving defined levels (see EN 81-1 and EN 81-2);
b) fire-fighting and fire rescue appliances (see EN 1777);
c) unguided work cages suspended from lifting appliances (see EN 1808);
d) elevating operator position on rail-dependent storage and retrieval equipment (EN 528);
e) tail lifts (see EN 1756-1 and prEN 1756-2);
f) mast-climbing work platforms (see ISO 16369);
g) fairground equipment;
h) lifting tables with a lifting height of less than 2 m (see EN 1570);
i) builders' hoists for persons and materials (see EN 12159);
j) aircraft ground-support equipment (see EN 1915-1 and EN 1915-2);
k) digger derricks (see ANSI A10.31);
l) elevating operator positions on industrial trucks (see EN 1726-2);
m) under-bridge inspection and maintenance devices (see ANSI A92.8);
n) stock-picking or order-picking type equipment.
ISO 16368:2003 history
2010ISO 16368:2010 Mobile elevating work platforms - Design, calculations, safety requirements and test methods
2003ISO 16368:2003 Mobile elevating work platforms - Design calculations, safety requirements and test methods