Multi-Level and Double-Deck Stand Approval at European Venues: Engineering, Documentation, and the Real Timeline
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The staircase to the upper level must meet EN 14122 (Safety of machinery - Permanent means of access to machinery) standards.
AfterThe staircase to the upper level must meet the applicable national building-code and venue technical-guideline requirements for public-access stairs (commonly informed by EN 14122 dimensional principles, though that standard is formally written for machinery access rather than public visitor stairs).
Why: EN 14122 ("Safety of machinery — Permanent means of access to machinery") is scoped to access infrastructure that is part of a machine or built specifically to access machinery/industrial equipment, not general public-access staircases on exhibition stands. Applying it as the compliance standard for visitor-facing exhibition stand stairs is a mismatched citation; in practice, public-access stand stairs/guardrails are governed by national building/fire codes and venue-specific technical guidelines, not this machinery-access standard.
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