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Document ID (ISN)54388
CIS number 90-1100
Year 1990
Convention or series no. Bestillingsnr. 295
Title Lifting tables [Norway]
Original title Løftebord [in Norwegian]
Bibliographic information Direktoratet for arbeidstilsynet, Postboks 8103 Dep., 0032 Oslo 1, Norway, 4th ed. Mar. 1990. 7p. Illus.
Abstract New edition of the regulations that were made on 13 Dec. 1973 under the Workers' Protection Act of 7 Dec. 1956 and entered into force on 1 Apr. 1974. The following aspects are covered: duties of employers, workers, manufacturers and suppliers installing the equipment, legal aspects, features of lifting tables (descending and rising speeds, hydraulic equipment, safe distances, safety devices such as limit switches, dead-man controls and automatic stops to prevent injury, control devices), installation, warning notices.
Descriptors (primary) safety engineering; elevating platforms; Norway
Descriptors (secondary) safety devices; distance protection; control elements; dead man's controls; safety by design; machinery guarding regulations; directive; responsibilities; marking
Document type A - Laws, regulations, directives
Country / State or ProvinceNorway
Subject(s) Standards and directives with the force of law
Broad subject area(s) Mechanical hazards, transport
Browse category(ies) Elevators, escalators and hoists