2. General requirements

The safety of passengers, operating personnel and third parties is a fundamental requirement for the design, construction and operation of cableway installations. All cableway installations shall be designed, operated and serviced in accordance with the following principles, which are to be applied in the order given: eliminate or, if that is not possible, reduce risks by means of design and construction features, define and implement all necessary measures to protect against risks which cannot be eliminated by the design and construction features, define and state the precautions which should be taken to avoid the risks which it has not been possible to eliminate completely by means of the provisions and measures referred to in the first and second indents. Cableway installations must be so designed and constructed as to make it possible to operate them safely, taking into account the type of cableway installation, the nature and physical features of the terrain on which it is installed, its surroundings and atmospheric and meteorological factors, as well as possible structures and obstacles located in the vicinity either on the ground or in the air. The cableway installation, the subsystems and all its safety components shall be dimensioned, designed and constructed to withstand, with a sufficient degree of safety, all stresses encountered under all foreseeable conditions, including those which occur when not in operation, and taking account in particular of outside influences, dynamic effects and fatigue phenomena, while complying with the acknowledged rules of the art, in particular with regard to the choice of materials. 2.5.1. The cableway installation, the subsystems and all the safety components shall be designed and constructed in such a way as to ensure that they can be safely assembled and put into place. 2.5.2. The safety components shall be so designed as to make assembly mistakes impossible, either as a result of construction or by means of appropriate markings on the components themselves. 2.6.1. The safety components shall be designed and constructed and be usable in such a way as to ensure that, in every case, their own operational integrity and/or the safety of the cableway installation is ensured, as defined in the safety analysis provided for in Article 8, so that their failure is highly improbable and with an adequate safety margin. 2.6.2. The cableway installation shall be designed and constructed in such a way as to ensure that, during its operation, any failure of a component which might endanger safety, is met by an appropriate measure being taken in good time. 2.6.3. The safeguards referred to in points 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 shall apply throughout the period between two scheduled inspections of the component concerned. The time period for the scheduled inspection of the safety components shall be clearly indicated in the instruction manual. 2.6.4. Safety components which are incorporated into cableway installations as spare parts shall satisfy the essential requirements of this Regulation and the conditions relating to the smooth interaction with the other parts of the cableway installations. 2.6.5. Measures shall be taken to ensure that the effects of a fire in the cableway installation do not endanger the safety of persons. 2.6.6. Special measures shall be taken to protect cableway installations and persons from the effects of lightning. 2.7.1. Any defect in the cableway installation which could result in a failure endangering safety shall, where practicable, be detected, reported and processed by a safety device. The same applies to any normally foreseeable external event which may endanger safety. 2.7.2. It shall be possible at all times to shut down the cableway installation manually. 2.7.3. After the cableway installation has been shut down by a safety device, it shall not be possible to restart it unless appropriate action has been taken. The cableway installation shall be designed and constructed so as to enable routine or special maintenance and repair operations and procedures to be carried out safely. The cableway installation shall be designed and constructed in such a way as to ensure that any internal or external nuisance resulting from noxious gases, noise emissions or vibrations falls within the prescribed limits.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.