Caution! – BS EN 17235:2024 Permanent anchor devices and safety hooks
This long-awaited harmonised standard was finally approved on the 23rd May 2024 under the Construction Products Regulations and provides a pathway to successfully test and CE mark fall protection products that are installed permanently into structures. Prior to 2010 permanently installed fall protection products were CE marked to EN 795 1997 Personal fall protection equipment — Anchor devices, harmonised under the PPE Directive 89/686/EEC. In April 2010 a test case took place to decide whether BS EN 795 Class A
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