prEN 16630

Scope

This document specifies general safety requirements for the manufacture, installation, inspection and maintenance of permanently installed, freely accessible outdoor fitness equipment. This document does not cover electrically driven equipment, functional training facilities (typically with unrestrained weights) nor military style obstacle courses with restricted access. The equipment is intended for youths and adults or users having an overall height greater than 1 400 mm to promote fitness by using the equipment to exercise. Equipment covered by this document is not playground equipment for children (EN 1176 series [1]), indoor stationary training equipment (EN ISO 20957 series [2], EN 957-6) or free access multi-sports equipment (EN 15312 [3]) even if it meets the requirements of each of these standards. NOTE In this document "permanently installed outdoor fitness equipment" is simply called "fitness equipment".