ASR A1.8 traffic routes

Technical rule for workplaces, traffic routes (ASR A1.8)

ASR A1.8 Traffic routes

ASR A1.8 lists all provisions that apply to the establishment and operation of traffic routes. In addition to stairs, this also includes step irons, fixed ladders, loading ramps, moving walks and escalators.

This ASR A1.8 specifies the requirements of the ordinance on workplaces within the scope of the scope of application. If the technical rules are complied with, the employer can assume that the relevant requirements of the ordinance are met. If the employer chooses a different solution, it must achieve at least the same level of safety and health protection for the employees.

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ASR 1.8 traffic routes

ASR stands for the former designation “Workplace Directive” of today's technical rules for workplaces. All requirements regarding the state of the art, hygienic requirements and occupational medicine that apply to setting up and operating workplaces are presented here. This ASR applies to the establishment and operation of traffic routes including stairs, fixed ladders and step irons, loading ramps as well as moving walks and escalators. It does not apply to entries and exits in, to and on work equipment within the meaning of Section 2 (1) of the Industrial Safety Ordinance and for vehicles and associated trailers that are intended for the transport of people and goods.

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This ASR specifies the requirements for setting up and operating traffic routes in Section 3a Paragraph 1 and Section 4 Paragraph 4 as well as points 1.8, 1.9, 1 .10 and 1.11 of the Annex to the Workplace Ordinance.

2 scope of application

 This ASR applies to the establishment and operation of traffic routes including stairs, fixed ladders and step irons, loading ramps as well as moving walks and escalators. It does not apply to entrances and exits in, to and on work equipment within the meaning of Section 2 (1) of the Industrial Safety Ordinance and for vehicles and associated trailers that are intended for the transport of people and goods.

This ASR does not apply to crampons, crampons and ladders on house chimneys, which are used exclusively as attack routes for the fire brigade.

Hints:
If there are corresponding hazards, this workplace rule is to be applied in particular in connection with the following ASR:

  • Safety sign: ASR A1.3 "Safety and health protection marking"
  • Protection against falls and falling objects, traffic routes on non-penetration-proof roofs: ASR A2.1 "Protection against falls and falling objects, entering danger areas"
  • Escape routes: ASR A2.3 "Escape routes and emergency exits, escape and rescue plan"
  • Lighting: ASR A3.4 "Lighting" and safety lighting: ASR A3.4 / 3 "Safety lighting, optical safety guidance systems"

For the barrier-free design of the traffic routes, ASR V3a.2 "Barrier-free design of workplaces", Appendix A1.8: Supplementary requirements to ASR A1.8 "Traffic routes" applies.

3 Definitions

3.1 Traffic routes are for pedestrian or vehicle traffic (person-controlled or automated) or for a combination of both certain areas on the premises of a company or on construction sites. This includes in particular corridors, corridors including catwalks and moving walks, stages and galleries, stairs, fixed ladders and loading docks.

3.2 Corridors to occasionally used factory equipment are traffic routes that provide unhindered access to the use of operating facilities (e.g. heating, windows, electrical supply).

3.3 Maintenance aisles are traffic routes that are used exclusively for maintenance and inspection.

3.4 Storage facilities are fixed and movable shelves and cabinets.

3.5 Narrow aisles e are traffic routes for powered industrial trucks in racking systems with no margin on both sides of at least 0.50 m between the most overhanging parts of the industrial trucks including their load and fixed parts of the environment. Aisles of drive-in racks are excluded. Drive-in shelving is a shelving system that enables a type of block storage in which several pallets are stored one behind the other and on top of one another, whereby these are placed on support rails connected to the supports. The industrial trucks drive into the rack aisles.

3.6 vehicles in the sense of this rule are, for example: motor vehicles or bicycles for the transport of people and loads, industrial trucks, with the exception of manually operated industrial trucks (e.g. hand pallet trucks, sack trucks), power-operated mobile work machines and work equipment and manually operated vehicles (e.g. bicycles).

3.7 stairway is an immovable component that is firmly connected to the structure and consists of at least one flight of stairs.

3.8 Flight of stairs is the uninterrupted sequence of at least three steps between two levels.

3.9 Auxiliary stairs are stairs that lead to areas that are not used regularly, e.g. access to catwalks, work platforms, work pits.

3.10 Construction stairs are single or multi-flight stairs that are only erected and used in the course of construction work.

Source: Excerpt from Technical Regulations for Workplaces ASR A1.8
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