ISO/TC 254 - Safety of amusement rides and amusement devices

This document specifies the minimum requirements necessary to ensure the safe maintenance, operation, inspection and testing of amusement rides and amusement devices which are intended to be installed both repeatedly without degradation or loss of integrity, and temporarily or permanently in fairgrounds and amusement parks or any other locations, and is concerned with the installing, assembly and disassembly, operating, handling, maintaining, repairing, modifying and inspecting of amusement devices, and is addressed to controllers, operators, attendants and inspection bodies. The following are not covered by this document (this list is not exhaustive): — grandstands; — construction site installations; — scaffolding; — removable agricultural structures; — simple coin-operated children's amusement devices; — carrying up to three children, and recreational devices like waterslides or summer toboggan runs; — playground equipment; — rope courses; — climbing walls; — inflatable trampolines and swimming pool equipment.

This document specifies the minimum requirements necessary for the independent inspections of amusement devices designed, manufactured, operated and used according to ISO 17842‑1 and ISO 17842‑2.

ISO 17824-1:2015 specifies the minimum requirements necessary to ensure the safe design, calculation, manufacture, and installation of the following: mobile, temporary or permanently installed machinery and structures, e.g. roundabouts, swings, boats, Ferris wheels, roller coasters, chutes, grandstands, membrane or textile structures, booths, stages, side shows, and structures for artistic aerial displays. These amusement devices are intended to be installed both repeatedly without degradation or loss of integrity, and temporarily or permanently in fairgrounds and amusement parks or any other locations. Fixed grandstands, construction site installations, scaffolding, removable agricultural structures and simple coin operated children's amusement devices intended for up to 3 children are not covered. It can nevertheless be used in the design of any similar structural or passenger-carrying device.

ISO 17929:2014 has been drawn up with the objective of ensuring the safety of amusement ride passengers, based on the international experience of manufacture and operation of such structures throughout the world gained over decades prior to its publication. It enables the identification of potential hazards and classification of biomechanical effects, including information on recommended acceleration limits, rate of their onset and their duration, to ensure acceptable degrees of biomechanical risks at the stage of amusement ride design, as well as to take such risks into account during development of operational procedures and information on use limitations for amusement ride guests. It gives recommendations regarding use limitations for amusement rides in accordance with the health condition and the well-being of passengers. It also specifies body dimensions of passengers 1,20 m to 2,0 m in height for motion risk analysis on amusement rides. These body dimensions can be taken into account when designing passenger containments and restraints. It does not cover devices used in the circus, theatre or sports, or other devices intended for use only by specially trained people. Nevertheless, it can be used in the design of any similar structural or passenger-carrying device even if it does not explicitly mention the device. ISO 17929:2014 is not applicable to amusement rides put into operation before the date of its publication.

ISO 17842-3:2015 defines requirements for the necessary inspections, in accordance with ISO/IEC 17020, of amusement devices designed, manufactured, operated and used according to ISO 17842 1 and ISO 17842 2.

ISO 17842-2:2015 specifies the minimum requirements necessary to ensure the safe maintenance, operation, inspection and testing of the following: mobile, temporary or permanently installed machinery and structures, e.g. roundabouts, swings, boats, Ferris wheels, roller coasters, chutes, grandstands, membrane or textile structures, booths, stages, side shows, and structures for artistic aerial displays. These devices are intended to be installed both repeatedly without degradation or loss of integrity, and temporarily or permanently in fairgrounds and amusement parks or any other locations. Fixed grandstands, construction site installations, scaffolding, removable agricultural structures and simple coin operated children's amusement devices, carrying not more than three children, are not covered.