🔥🔥 Don’t Miss Out on Our End of Autumn Sale. If you have any questions, feel free to click the bottom right corner to contact our customer service..

Concat us[email protected]
Shopping Cart

No products in the cart.

🔍
BS 13700:2021

BS 13700:2021

$167.15

Permanent counterweighted guardrail systems. Specification

Published By Publication Date Number of Pages
BSI 2021 44
PDF Format Searchable Printable Preview Now
Guaranteed Safe Checkout
Category:

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our online customer service team by clicking on the bottom right corner. We’re here to assist you 24/7.
Email:[email protected]

This British Standard specifies requirements for the design, performance, testing, inspection, marking and instructions for use of manufactured free‐standing permanent guardrails that rely on mass and friction and are intended to protect workers from a fall hazard. These guardrails are not fixed to a structure.

This British Standard does not apply to:

  1. temporary counterweighted guardrails (see BS EN 13374);

  2. warning chains/posts used for demarcation;

  3. netting or infill panels used as barriers;

  4. guardrails that penetrate the structure and secure to the substrate;

  5. guardrails designed to support material‐handling equipment; and

  6. guardrails intended for use on surfaces with a slope of more than 5°.

PDF Catalog

PDF Pages PDF Title
5 Foreword
7 1 Scope
2 Normative references
8 3 Terms and definitions
9 Figure 1 — Free-standing counterweighted guardrail system – PCGS components
10 4 General requirements
4.1 General
4.2 Materials
4.3 Non‐metallic materials
11 4.4 Fasteners
4.5 Drainage
4.6 Finish
4.7 Welded assembly
5 Design requirements
5.1 General
5.2 Configuration
12 5.3 Counterweights
5.4 Partial safety factors
6 Test requirements
6.1 General
13 Table 1 — Test requirements – Overview
6.2 Static tests
15 Figure 2 — Horizontally outwards – Guardrails and posts
Table 2 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 2
16 Figure 3 — Horizontally outwards – Toeboard (optional)
Table 3 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 3
17 Figure 4 — Vertically downwards – Guardrails and posts
Table 4 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 4
18 Figure 5 — Vertically downwards – Toeboard (optional)
Table 5 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 5
19 Figure 6 — Horizontally parallel – Guardrails and posts
Table 6 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 6
20 Figure 7 — Horizontally parallel – Toeboard (optional)
Table 7 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 7
21 Figure 8 — Vertically upwards – System
Table 8 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 8
22 Figure 9 — Working wind + horizontal outward load – Guardrails and posts (principal guardrail only)
Table 9 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 9
23 Figure 10 — Working wind – Horizontally outwards – Toeboard
Table 10 — Loadings and requirements for Figure 10
24 6.3 Evaluation of the recorded test results
6.4 Working wind loading
6.5 Maximum velocity pressure
6.6 Application of the wind loads to the edge protection structure − Overturning
25 7 Test samples, equipment, and procedures
7.1 Samples
7.2 Test equipment
26 Figure 11 — Load cell position options
7.3 Test procedure
27 7.4 Static horizontal test
28 7.5 Static vertical downward test
29 7.6 Static vertical upward test
7.7 Horizontal parallel test
30 7.8 Working wind horizontal test
31 7.9 Test report
32 8 Markings and instructions
8.1 Markings
8.2 Information to be given to the duty holder
33 Figure 12 — Positioning of end assembly elements
34 9 Inspection, maintenance, testing and thorough examinations
9.1 General
9.2 Pre-use checks – Inspection
9.3 Thorough examination
36 Annex A (informative)  Example of preliminary design information
37 Table A.1 — Wind speed assessment
39 Annex B (informative)  Wind speed calculation report
Table B.1 — Wind speed calculation report
41 Annex C (informative)  Worked examples
43 Bibliography

Related products

BS 13700:2021
$167.15