Hi Brian and Folks Whilst not knowing of EN/UL standards, I can refer you to UK Defence Standard 0025 Part 3 "Human Factors for Designers of Equipment. Part 3 "Body Strength and Stamina", and specifically to the following paragraphs:
DEF 00-25 (Part 3)/2 Para 10.1.1 & 10.1.2, states the "person-carry" guidelines to be: Men <20kg, Women <13kg. However, DEF 00-25(Part 3)/2 Table 10 97th percentile "two-handed lift guidelines from just below waist height" are: Men <42kg, Women <18kg. >From our recent experience I would recommend that you should generally NOT mark items as "2 man lift" etc., as the ability of persons to lift and carry do vary considerably as demonstrated in this document. Again, from experience, I would use such markings only if the item is very heavy indeed or is of such a shape as to make it dangerous for less than a given number to try to lift or carry it. However, what I would do is to annotate the installation and use instructions with a recommendation that personnel handling such equipment shall required to undergo formal training in the manual handling of equipment in general. I would also ensure that these instructions contain warnings and specific weight data for each piece of affected equipment. There is a lot more information in this 40 page standard, with charts etc This standard is available to download from the following site: http://www.dstan.mod.uk/ Regards John Allen Racal Defence Electronics Ltd Bracknell UK. ---------- From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: 30 March 2000 10:10 To: [email protected] Subject: Lifting restrictions Hi group Is anyone aware of a standard UL or EN which details the Weights that are acceptable as one and two person lifts. I have come across a number of industry and company related information but cannot find a standard. Also is there an accepted international warning label to cover this. Regards Brian Harlowe ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
