Legislation and Standardisation for Cableway Installations for the Transport of Persons – Pohorska 'Vzpenjača' Gondola Lift

Cableway transport emerged very early in the past, with the first pulling of loads with rope to crossing rivers on rafts with the help of rope tied to trees … Today we cannot imagine winter resorts without cableway installations. In each chapter they focused on the legal basis and at the very end analysed the existing situation with general legal and standard requirements. When an accident is the result of poor material, it is found that poor maintenance was to blame, for which again the human is responsible. It is of essential importance that we adhere to legislation and thereby ensure the minimum maintenance conditions prescribed by law and standards. Likewise, operators should devote more time and money to maintenance than is determined on an annual basis.

Problem

Cableway transport emerged very early in the past, with the first pulling of loads with rope to crossing rivers on rafts with the help of rope tied to trees … Today we cannot imagine winter resorts without cableway installations. Cableway installations represent the basic transport connection.

Over time, the technology of installations has advanced so much that installations have become complex machines, which from the point of view of safe use of machines or installations must still be supervised by humans. Likewise, cableway legislation and standardisation have advanced in favour of users, operators and manufacturers. The thesis presents three essential chapters:

Solution and Method

In each chapter they focused on the legal basis and at the very end analysed the existing situation with general legal and standard requirements. However, since accidents occur in cableway transport just as on the road, they selected the following three propositions as their goal, which they confirmed in the thesis: Many things in the diploma thesis were described from the point of view of their own experience. As already written in the thesis itself, accidents occur on cableway installations, for which the human is mostly responsible, the cause being human negligence and ignorance. ** Today installations have advanced technologically to such an extent** that material rarely fails.

In most cases the human fails.

• presentation of the Pohorska Vzpenjača gondola lift with emphasis on key traffic safety parameters;
• personnel for operation of cableway installations;
• operation of cableway installations in normal and emergency cases.

Results

When an accident is the result of poor material, it is found that poor maintenance was to blame, for which again the human is responsible. It is of essential importance that we adhere to legislation and thereby ensure the minimum maintenance conditions prescribed by law and standards. Likewise, operators should devote more time and money to maintenance than is determined on an annual basis. Training of personnel is also important, as workers are the first on the installation when problems arise, before catastrophe occurs.

In the company I actively participate in the training of seasonal workers, whom we newly employ before the start of winter, as workers from previous seasons rarely return. It has also been said many times that operators should invest more money in training personnel for safe operation or rescue with emergency drive or with rope technique. In the thesis all three hypotheses are confirmed: Unfortunately, people are such that we often do not adhere to all rules and consequently things slip out of our control.

Therefore it is of key importance that we regularly and carefully practise all procedures for operating cableway installations in all conditions and situations, as in the event of an accident they will not have a beautiful sunny day as perhaps during rescue exercises.

• If we adhere to the minimum requirements prescribed by laws and standards, installations will be safe for users. It is of key importance that in addition to legislation we consistently observe manufacturers' instructions.
• Likewise, by observing good practice of operators, we ensure safety on the installation and reduce maintenance costs.
• If we observe legislation and educate personnel about it, we will in most cases take care of our own safety as well as the safety of users of cableway installations.