CEN Working Group for transport platforms

CEN Working Group for transport platforms

A new CEN Working Group has been formed to develop a European standard for transport platforms.

Working Group 4 or WG4 as it will be known has been formed under CEN/TC 10, the European technical standards committee that covers lifts, escalators and moving walks, following lobbying by IPAF’s Transport Platform Working Group (TPWG), to introduce a European manufacturing norm for transport platforms.

Adrian Bolton of Alimak Hek UK has been appointed as the convenor of WG 4. CEN/TC 10 has adopted the creation of a manufacturing standard for transport platforms as a new work item, with a first working draft targeted for circulation in March 2011.

Transport platforms are a form of mast climber with an open carrier and hold-to-run controls that are operated by and used for transporting authorised, trained people, materials at limited speed between various access levels on a building or structure for construction, renovation, maintenance or other types of work.

Luca Allegro of Alimak Hek, Italy who chairs the IPAF TPWG said: The TPWG is pleased to give all its support the members of WG 4. This is only the beginning of a long process that will finally lead to a European standard for transport platforms.”

Those interested in being informed of new developments should e-mail the IPAF TPWG convenor, Romina Vanzi, at mcwp@ipaf.org