BS EN 17206:2020 pdf free.Entertainment technology一Machinery for stages and other production areas – Safety requirements and inspections.
BS EN 17206 This document applies to machinery, machinery installations and machinery control systems used in places of assembly and in staging and production facilities for events and theatrical productions (stage machinery, for short). Such facilities include: theatres, multi-purpose halls, exhibition halls; film,television and radio studios; concert halls, schools, bars, discotheques, open-air stages and other rooms for shows and events.The document applies to machinery installations with guided or unguided loads.This document covers machinery used in the entertainment industry including machinery that is
excluded from the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) specifically Article 1, 2G) which excludes “machinery intended to move performers during artistic performances’ ‘.This machinery includes controls, electrical and electronic control systems, electrical and electronic equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic power supplies.The principles in this document also apply to machinery installations based on new technologies or specially designed installations which are not expressly mentioned here but which nevertheless operate in a similar manner or are meant for similar purposes to the equipment listed above.The following steps shall be taken when selecting protective measures:a) specify the limits of the machinery (intended use, reasonably foreseeable misuse, space limits, the foreseeable life limit, and wear factors) b) identify hazards and estimate risks; c) avoid hazards by means of inherently safe design measures and reduce risks as much as possible; d) inform users of any residual risks (information for use).Table 2 shows a list of significant hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events that could result in risks to persons during normal use and foreseeable misuse. It also contains the relevant clauses in this document that are necessary to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with those hazards.The basic safety concept laid down in this document is based on the principles of intrinsic safety or single fault safety design. This is achieved either through doubling the working coefficient in calculations (designing for twice the characteristic load) or through redundancy.BS EN 17206 pdf downlaod.