This document specifies the safety rules for lifts permanently serving buildings and constructions and intended for the transport of persons or persons and goods. It applies to traction lifts, positive drive lifts and hydraulic lifts that:
serve specific levels; and
have a rated speed exceeding 0,15 m/s; and
have an enclosed car; and
move along guide rails inclined not more than 15° to the vertical; and
are indoor or weather-protected.
This document also applies to the electrical equipment of these lifts including the lighting and socket outlets in the well.
This document specifies safety rules related to:
persons to be safeguarded:
users, including passengers, maintenance and inspection personnel;
persons at the landings and outside of the well, or any machinery space and pulley room, who can be affected by the lift.
property to be safeguarded:
loads in the car;
components of the lift installation;
building in which the lift is installed.
This document does not specify additional requirements for:
lifts serving buildings with requirements for seismic conditions;
lifts serving buildings with requirements for accessibility;
lifts exposed to vandalism;
lifts which can be used for firefighting and evacuation purposes under firefighters control;
lifts which can be used to support faster evacuation of persons with disabilities;
the behaviour of the lift when the control system of the lift receives a recall signal(s) in the event of fire in a building.
This document is not applicable to passenger and goods passenger lifts, which are installed before the date of its publication.
