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BS EN 81-22:2021 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Passenger and goods passenger lifts with inclined travel path, 2021
- National foreword
- Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European Standard and the essential requirements of Directive 2014/33/EU aimed to be covered
- Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European Standard and the essential requirements of Directive 2014/33/EU aimed to be covered
- European foreword
- 0 Introduction
- 0.1 General
- 0.2 Considerations
- 0.3 Principles
- 0.4 Assumptions
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions, symbols and abbreviated terms [Go to Page]
- 3.1 Terms and definitions
- 3.2 Symbols and abbreviated terms [Go to Page]
- 3.2.1 Symbols
- 3.2.2 Abbreviated terms
- 4 List of significant hazards [Go to Page]
- 4.1 General
- 5 Safety requirements and/or protective measures [Go to Page]
- 5.1 General provisions
- 5.2 Lift well [Go to Page]
- 5.2.1 General provisions
- 5.2.2 Well enclosure
- 5.2.3 Walls, floor, ceilings
- 5.2.4 Construction of the walls of lift wells and landing doors facing a car entrance
- 5.2.5 Protection of any spaces located in the vehicle trajectory, the counterweight or the balancing weight at the lowest level
- 5.2.6 Protection in the well
- 5.2.7 Headroom and pit
- 5.2.8 Exclusive use of the well
- 5.2.9 Lighting of the well
- 5.2.10 Emergency release
- 5.2.11 Access to the well through a landing door
- 5.2.12 Protection of the areas under the running track
- 5.3 Machine, working areas and pulley spaces [Go to Page]
- 5.3.1 General provisions
- 5.3.2 Access
- 5.3.3 Machinery in machine room
- 5.3.4 Working areas and machinery inside the well
- 5.3.5 Working areas and machinery outside of the well
- 5.3.6 Devices for emergency and test operations
- 5.3.7 Construction and equipment of pulley spaces
- 5.4 Landing doors [Go to Page]
- 5.4.1 General provisions
- 5.4.2 Strength of doors and their frames
- 5.4.3 Height and width of entrances
- 5.4.4 Sills, guides, door suspension
- 5.4.5 Protection in relation to door operation
- 5.4.6 Local lighting and “car here” signal lights
- 5.4.7 Locking and closed landing door check
- 5.4.8 Closing of automatically operated doors
- 5.5 Car, vehicle, counterweight, balancing weight [Go to Page]
- 5.5.1 Height of the car
- 5.5.2 Available car area, rated load, number of passengers
- 5.5.3 Walls, floor and roof of the car
- 5.5.4 Car apron
- 5.5.5 Car entrance
- 5.5.6 Car doors
- 5.5.7 Protection during operation of doors
- 5.5.8 Reversal of closing movement
- 5.5.9 Electrical device for proving the car doors closed
- 5.5.10 Sliding doors with multiple, mechanically linked panels
- 5.5.11 Opening the car door
- 5.5.12 Emergency trap doors and emergency doors
- 5.5.13 Working station
- 5.5.14 Car header and car sides
- 5.5.15 Inspection equipment
- 5.5.16 Ventilation, heating, air-conditioning
- 5.5.17 Lighting
- 5.5.18 Counterweight and balancing weight
- 5.5.19 Running/sliding elements
- 5.5.20 Element for maintaining the vehicle inside the dynamic envelope
- 5.5.21 Clearance of obstacles
- 5.6 Suspension, compensation, overspeed protection and protection against unintended vehicle movement [Go to Page]
- 5.6.1 Suspension
- 5.6.2 Sheave, pulley, drum and rope diameter ratios, rope/chain terminations, safety coefficients
- 5.6.3 Rope traction
- 5.6.4 Winding up of ropes for positive drive lifts
- 5.6.5 Distribution of load between the ropes or the chains
- 5.6.6 Compensation with ropes/loop ropes
- 5.6.7 Protection for traction sheaves, pulleys and sprockets
- 5.6.8 Safety gear
- 5.6.9 Overspeed governor
- 5.6.10 Ascending vehicle overspeed protection means
- 5.6.11 Protection against unintended vehicle movement
- 5.7 Running tracks, guide rails, counter-guide rails and safety gear operating element – Buffers – Final limit switches [Go to Page]
- 5.7.1 General provisions concerning the running tracks, guide rails, counter-guide rails and safety gear gripping element
- 5.7.2 Travel and guiding of the vehicle, counterweight or balancing weight
- 5.7.3 Vehicle and counterweight buffers
- 5.7.4 Stroke of vehicle and counterweight buffers
- 5.7.5 Final limit switches
- 5.8 Clearances between vehicle and wall facing the vehicle entrance, and between car, counterweight or balancing weight [Go to Page]
- 5.8.1 General provision
- 5.8.2 Clearances between vehicle and wall facing the vehicle entrance
- 5.8.3 Clearances between vehicle, counterweight or balancing weight
- 5.9 Lift machine [Go to Page]
- 5.9.1 General provision
- 5.9.2 Drive of the vehicle and the counterweight or balancing weight
- 5.9.3 Use of overhung pulleys or sprockets
- 5.9.4 Braking system
- 5.9.5 Emergency operation
- 5.9.6 Speed
- 5.9.7 Stopping the machine and checking its stopped condition
- 5.9.8 Monitoring the slowdown of the machine
- 5.9.9 Positive drive lifts – Monitoring of the tension of the ropes/chains
- 5.9.10 Motor run time limiter
- 5.9.11 Protection of machinery
- 5.9.12 Normal stopping of the car at landings and levelling accuracy
- 5.9.13 Starting/slowdown of the vehicle
- 5.10 Electric installations and appliances [Go to Page]
- 5.10.1 General provisions
- 5.10.2 Contactors, relay-contactors, components of safety circuits
- 5.10.3 Protection of motors and other electrical equipment
- 5.10.4 Main switches
- 5.10.5 Electric wiring
- 5.11 Protection against electric faults; controls; priorities [Go to Page]
- 5.11.1 Failure analysis and electric safety devices
- 5.11.2 Controls
- 6 Verification of the safety requirements and/or protective measures [Go to Page]
- 6.1 Methods to be used
- 6.2 Specific data, test reports and certificates
- 7 Information for use [Go to Page]
- 7.1 General
- 7.2 Signals and warning devices [Go to Page]
- 7.2.1 General provisions
- 7.2.2 Inside the car
- 7.2.3 At the landings
- 7.2.4 At the entrance to the well
- 7.2.5 At the machinery and pulley spaces
- 7.2.6 At working stations
- 7.2.7 In the well
- 7.2.8 At the control unit
- 7.2.9 On safety components
- 7.3 Inspection and test [Go to Page]
- 7.3.1 General
- 7.3.2 Constructional inspection and acceptance inspection and test
- 7.3.3 Periodical examinations and tests
- 7.4 Accompanying documents (in particular, instruction handbook) [Go to Page]
- 7.4.1 Contents
- 7.4.2 Presentation of the instruction handbook
- 7.4.3 Advice for drafting and editing information for use
- 7.4.4 Register
- 7.4.5 Marking in the car
- Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European Standard and the essential requirements of Directive 2014/33/EU aimed to be covered
- Bibliography
- Annex A (normative) List of the safety contacts
- Annex B (normative) Unlocking triangle
- Annex C (informative) Technical dossier
- Annex D (normative) Examinations and tests before putting into service
- Annex E (informative) Periodical examinations and tests, examinations and tests after an important modification or after an accident
- Annex F (normative) Safety components - Test procedures for verification of conformity
- Annex G (informative) Calculation of the supporting structure, the running tracks, the guide rails, the vehicle and the safety gear gripping element
- Annex H (normative) Electronic components - Failure exclusion
- Annex I (informative) Safety circuits
- Annex J (normative) Pendulum shock tests
- Annex K (informative) Traction evaluation
- Annex L (normative) Evaluation of safety factor for suspension ropes
- Annex M (informative) Machinery spaces – Access
- Annex N (informative) Building interfaces
- Annex O (informative) Environment: aspects to be considered for a risk analysis
- Annex P (informative) Determination of anti-slip properties for floor surfaces [Go to Page]
