This document specifies assessment of characteristics for anchor devices and safety hooks intended to be used with personal fall protection systems to prevent persons from falling and arrest falls, both permanently fixed on or into buildings and civil engineering works.
The safety hooks covered under this standard are also intended to for the attachment of mobile roof ladders or work platforms and have an opening of not less than 80 mm and not more than 150 mm, see Figure 2. The height h of the hook is at least 120 mm.
NOTE The personal fall protection systems are used according to EN 363:2018.
This standard also covers the fastening kits used to secure the anchor devices or safety hooks on or into the load bearing structure.
It specifies essential dimensions, materials and criteria to assess the performance of representative load bearing structures.
This standard describes the methods and criteria to assess the performance and durability of the following anchor kits:
- Kit A (Anchor kit incorporating a single anchor device);
- Kit B (Anchor kit incorporating a safety hook);
- Kit C (Anchor kit incorporating a horizontal wire anchor line);
- Kit D (Anchor kit incorporating a horizontal rail anchor line).
The kits described in this standard consist usually of several components. They are intended to be evaluated as a kit in its entirety.
This standard is not applicable to:
- Temporary anchor devices according to EN 795:2012;
- Facilities for roof access according to EN 516:2006;
- Permanently fixed ladders on roofs according to EN 12951:2004.
- Permanent anchor devices and safety hooks fixed with nails.