Mobile Elevated Work Platform Standards
Aerial work platforms have been renamed and are now called mobile elevating work platforms or mewps.
Mobile elevated work platform standards. The new ansi a92 mobile elevating work platform mewp includes design safe use and training standards. Previously lifts were classified by product types boom or scissor. The new standards are a92 20 design calculations safety requirements and test methods for mobile elevating work platforms mewps. The platform never extends beyond the tipping line and the machine is designed to only be moved with the platform in the stowed position.
Along with the new terminology for lifts is a new classification system. Updates to ansi standards and requirements for mobile elevating work platforms or mewps originally scheduled to go in effect december 2019 has been pushed back until march 1 2020 as your material handling equipment partner our team at liftone is here to provide you with all the information you need to comply with the new ansi a92 22 and a92 24 standards. A92 22 safe use of mobile elevating work platforms mewps. Previously aerial work platforms were classified by product type like scissor lifts boom lifts etc.
Ansi which is the american national standards institute provides a set of standards for all american manufacturers and producers and this includes standards that directly impact the design. If the phrase mobile elevating work platforms and the acronym mewp don t ring a bell it s what you might think of as an aerial work platform. Aerial work platforms awps will now be known as mobile elevating work platforms mewps. The mobile classification means the equipment can be driven either under its own power or by manual effort.
Osha regulation www osha gov all regulations letters of interpretation safety tips and other resources are found and available for free. Group a type 1 mewp. In the united states the scaffold access industry association saia is one of more than 220. Mewps will now be classified into groups and sub divided into.
The new standard classifications are a combination of two groups and three types. Genie awp super series manually propelled lifts. New regulations that will address the design safe use and training requirements for mobile elevating work platforms mewps are presently being drafted by u s. Mobile elevating work platform or mewps is terminology being used by ansi to describe some aerial work platforms in its ansi a92 2 standards.
All north american manufacturers and operators need to understand and abide by the new safety features for future compliance. A mobile elevating work platform mewp is any device telescoping articulating or any combination of these that is capable of running over a supporting surface without the need for fixed runways and or vertical or horizontal restraining connections to lift personnel equipment and materials to and from workplaces located above a support surface. Type 3 travelling with the work platform in the elevated travel position is controlled from a point on the work platform.