This Part 4 of EN 12195 - specifies safety requirements for lashing steel wire ropes and flat lashing steel wire ropes and lashing combinations with lashing steel wire ropes for the safe surface transport of loads on load carriers, e.g. trucks and trailers which are used on roads or located on vessels or on rail wagons and/or combinations thereof; - stipulates procedures for testing lashing steel wire ropes and flat lashing steel wire ropes; - deals with hazards which could occur when lashing steel wire ropes and flat lashing steel wire ropes are in use as intended and under conditions foreseen by the manufacturer (see clause 4 and annex A).