Mobile elevating work platforms — Design, calculations, safety requirements and test methods

This document specifies safety requirements and protective/risk reduction measures, and the means for their verification, for all types and sizes of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) intended for moving a person(s) along with their necessary tools and materials at an elevated work location.

This document also applies to MEWPs designed for applications requiring special access to specific work areas. These MEWPs can be either self-propelled or manually propelled and are used to elevate personnel to a level at which they can place, install, or retrieve objects or material on a routine basis. To facilitate operator access to the work area, the retraction of a portion of the MEWP's work platform guardrail system(s) can be necessary.

This document is intended to serve as a guide for manufacturers and remanufacturers of MEWPs to achieve the following objectives:

— elimination or reduction of accidents and personal injuries;

— establishment of criteria for design, manufacture, remanufacture, rebuild/recondition, testing and performance;

— establishment and understanding by manufacturers and remanufacturers of their responsibilities.

The design and manufacturing requirements of