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BRITISH STANDARD
9.5.2
BS 5975‑1:2024
Provision of technical information for design
The supplier should either provide technical information or justify the capacities by specific
calculations and certificates (see also 9.4).
NOTE 1 Attention is drawn to section 6 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 [5] and the duty of suppliers
and importers of equipment to supply relevant and correct performance data.
The technical information should include:
a)
the intended uses for the components and how they can be identified;
b)
appropriate dimensions, section and material properties and masses;
c)
structural properties for various conditions of use, such as different extensions and
eccentricities, together with details of any necessary bracing or lacing, or restraint assumed to be
provided by the permanent works;
d)
a clear statement on whether capacities are in terms of characteristic strength or maximum safe
working loads;
e)
what factors of safety have been included or assumed;
NOTE 2 For characteristic strength this includes recommended partial material and load factors. For
maximum safe working load this is the global factor on the failure.
f)
any appropriate British or European Standards to which components conform;
g)
details and capacity of connections where loads are received into one or more components,
transferred from one to the other, and transmitted to other supports such as foundations; and
h)
any limiting deflection conditions.
The supplier need not publish test reports or manufacturing drawings but should be prepared to
share this information with specific users of the equipment, putting confidentiality agreements in
place if necessary.
9.5.3
Provision of information for the safe use of equipment
The supplier should provide the following and specify any specific testing, maintenance or inspection
regimes:
9.5.4
a)
detailed user guides, in an appropriate format, explaining how the items are to be used;
b)
information on transportation and safe handling of temporary works equipment on site,
e.g. lifting points, safe stacking and storage; and
c)
identification of critical items requiring inspection, such as connections or items prone to
deterioration over a period of time.
Standard solutions
The supplier should provide technical data in the form of arrangements of their equipment based on
certain conditions of use. These arrangements, known as standard solutions and often presented in a
tabular or readily assimilated format, should relate to the supplier’s products only (see 12.10).
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