The importance of the CE marking to the ladders
January 23, 2009
The ladders are a supplementary product on the site that customers do not know or for which they do not ask for regulations, but posed an important detail in installations: designed to raise and lower people, directly affect the security of the person, with the importance that this entails.
Unfortunately, nowadays the ladders of China are imported and even domestic manufacturers do not rely on the standard, which is a product that is sold very cheaply. Iverna 2000, S.L. is the only company that sells this product with the CE marking and approved.
The quality of the raw
Iverna 2000 laboratory we analyze ladders of competition with China and we have brought us genuine surprises: no longer have the rule, EC, quality of the plastic and steel, recorded at the pate but that the step is dangerous to the not respected any point of the standard. Even used plastics and steel not approved so the rungs are unsafe and can lead to the fall of the people. The plastic used to pate must have the particularity of absorb the shocks that are given to enter it. If it is not a good plastic, at the time of mounting splinter or break off pieces of plastic, so the rod remains visible and begins the process of oxidation. And if the steel has no thickness, or the resistance required in supporting one side of the foot, with all the weight of the person, can break the taco integrated in pate and having the same problem of oxidation. In addition, if a person down, it can have an accident at work.
The European standard in-13101 specifies that for each lot of 1,000 ladders manufactured must make an individual trial, by what is not worth anything posting trials on the Internet not always give the same essay changing the date, that the manufacturer can change the quality of the raw materialswithout guaranteeing that pate offer the resistance required.
The standard in-13101: purpose and scope
This standard specifies General requirements and test methods for ladders for uses in wells and other underground visitable cameras as a means of access.
It also specifies criteria of conduct for stability and mechanical resistance providing protection against falls. The ladders included in this standard are suitable for use in surface water, sanitation, and subject to the requirements of national regulations, in drinking water systems.
When the ladders are to be used in corrosive environments, for example, industrial waste, it may require additional protection.
