NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 32) which is identical with IEC 60204-32 : 2008 ‘Safety of machinery – Electrical equipment of machines — Part 32: Requirements for hoisting machines’ issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Safety of Machinery — Electrotechnical Aspects Sectional Committee and approval of the Electrotechnical Division Council.

The text of IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminology and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.