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    I.S. EN 81-20:2014

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    SAFETY RULES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF LIFTS - LIFTS FOR THE TRANSPORT OF PERSONS AND GOODS - PART 20: PASSENGER AND GOODS PASSENGER LIFTS

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Superseded date:  13-03-2020

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  01-01-2014

    Publisher:  National Standards Authority of Ireland

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    Foreword
    0 Introduction
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms and definitions
    4 List of significant hazards
    5 Safety requirements and/or
      protective measures
    6 Verification of the safety requirements
      and/or protective measures
    7 Information for use
    Annex A (normative) - List of the electric safety
            devices
    Annex B (informative) - Technical compliance
            documentation
    Annex C (informative) - Periodic examinations and
            tests, examinations and tests after an important
            modification or after an accident
    Annex D (informative) - Machinery spaces - Access
    Annex E (informative) - Building interfaces
    Annex F (normative) - Pit access ladder
    Annex ZA (informative) - Relationship between this
             European Standard and the Essential
             Requirements of EU Directive 95/16/EC amended
             by Directive 2006/42/EC
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    Defines the safety rules for permanently installed new passenger or goods passenger lifts, with traction, positive or hydraulic drive, serving defined landing levels, having a car designed for the transportation of persons or persons and goods, suspended by ropes, chains or jacks and moving between guide rails inclined not more than 15 degrees to the vertical.

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    Development Note Together with I.S. EN 81-50, it supersedes I.S. EN 81-1 and I.S. EN 81-2. (09/2014)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher National Standards Authority of Ireland
    Status Superseded
    Superseded By

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    IEC 60529:1989+AMD1:1999+AMD2:2013 CSV Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code)
    EN 60664-1:2007 Insulation coordination for equipment within low-voltage systems - Part 1: Principles, requirements and tests
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    EN 81-73:2016 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts - Part 73: Behaviour of lifts in the event of fire
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    ISO 1219-1:2012 Fluid power systems and components — Graphical symbols and circuit diagrams — Part 1: Graphical symbols for conventional use and data-processing applications
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    IEC 61508-6:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 6: Guidelines on the application of IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61508-3 (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)
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