BS EN 365-2004 pdf download.Personal protective equipment against falls from a height — General requirements for instructions for use, maintenance, periodic examination, repair, marking and packaging.
The manufacturer shall prepare instructions for use, for maintenance and for periodic examination for each item of PPE or other equipment, in the official languages of the country of destination.
NOTE The instructions for use, for maintenance and for periodic examination may be supphed in separate documents.
4.2 InstructIons for use
4.2.1 The instructions for use shall be in a written format, shall be clear, legible and unambiguous, and shall contain appropriate detail, supptemented by diagrams if necessary, to enable the PPE or other equipment to be used correctly and safely.
4.2.2 The instructions for use shall include:
a) name and contact details of the manufacturer or authorised representative as appropriate:
b) statements describing the equipment, its intended purpose, application and limitations;
c) warning about medical conditions that could affect the safety of the equipment user in normal and emergency use;
d) warning that the equipment shall only be used by a person trained and competent in its safe use;
e) warning that a rescue plan shall be in place to deal with any emergencies that could arise during the work;
f) warning against making any alterations or additions to the equipment without the manufacturer’s prior written consent, and that any repair shall only be carried out in accordance with manufacturer’s procedures;
9) warning that the equipment shall not be used outside its limitations, or for any purpose other than that for which it is intended;
h) advice as to whether the equipment should be a personal issue item, where this is applicable:
i) sufficient Information to ensure the compatibility of items of equipment when assembled into a system;
j) warning of any dangers that may arise by the use of combinations of items of equipment in which the safe function of any one item is affected by or interferes with the safe function of another;
k) instruction for the user to carry out a pre-use check of the equipment, to ensure that it is in a serviceable condition and operates correctly before it is used:
NOTE 1 A pre-use check by the user may not be applicable in the case of certain parts of equipment for emergency use which have been pre-packed or sealed by a competent person.
n) requirements of the anchor device or structural member chosen to serve as the anchor point(s), in particular the minimum required strength, the suitability and the position:
o) where relevant, instructions on how to connect to the anchor device or structure;
p) where relevant, an instruction detailing the correct harness attachment point to use, and how to connect to it:
q) for equipment intended for use in fall arrest systems, a warning to emphasise that it is essential for safety that the anchor device or anchor point should always be positioned, and the work carried out in such a way, as to minimise both the potential for falls and potential fall distance. Where It is essential that the anchor device/point is placed above the position of the user, the manufacturer shall make a statement to that effect;
r) where relevant, an instruction that a full body harness is the only acceptable body holding device that can be used in a fall arrest system:
s) for equipment intended for use in fall arrest systems, a warning to emphasise that it is essential for safety to verify the free space required beneath the user at the workp’ace before each occasion of use, so that, in the case of a fall, there will be no collision with the ground or other obstacle in the fall path:
t) Information on the hazards that may affect the performance of the equipment and corresponding safety precautions that have to be observed e.g.: extremes of temperature, trailing or looping of lanyards or lifelines over sharp edges, chemical reagents, electrical conductivity, cutting, abrasion, climatic exposure, pendulum falls:
u) instructions as relevant on how to protect the equipment against damage during transportation:
v) information on the meaning of any markings andlor symbols on the equipment:
w) statement describing the equipment model, type, identification marks and if appropriate the document and year to which it conforms;
x) where it is a requirement that an EC type examination be carried out by a Notified Body, the name, address and identification number of the Notified Body involved with the design stage and of the Notified Body involved in the production control phase:
y) statement of any known limit to the safe useable life of the product or any part of the product and/or advice on how to determine when the product is no longer safe to use;
z) warning that it is essential for the safety of the user that if the product is re-sold outside the original country of destination the reseller shall provide instructions for use, for maintenance, for periodic examination and for repair in the language of the country in WhiCh the product Is to be used.BS EN 365-2004 pdf download.