prEN 14056-2

Laboratory furniture - Recommendations for design and installation - Part 2: Table frames

Scope

This document is applicable to laboratory bench support structures in biology, chemistry and
physics laboratories where research, preparative, analytical, process activities take place and
which can involve work with hazardous substances, including higher education (college and
university teaching and post-graduate research).
This document does not cover the requirements of schools, i.e. pre college/pre-university (refer
to EN 13150), or highly specialist laboratories which need very specific, bespoke solutions to
enable them to function.
This document specifies requirements for installation, design and testing procedures of
laboratory bench support structures that either have a fixed installation or are mobile. The
requirements apply both to free-standing structures that are fully assembled and ready for
operation as well as to the support structures of benches that are used as part of a combined
assembly.