BS 5900:1991

Committees responsible
Foreword
Specification
Section 1. General
1.1 Scope
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Design considerations
1.4 Building requirements
1.5 Electrical equipment
Section 2. Lifts with totally enclosed car and
            enclosures at each level
2.1 General safety factor
2.2 Lift well enclosure
2.3 Guides and fixings
2.4 Buffers
2.5 Top and bottom clearances and runbys
2.6 Lift car
2.7 Door construction and clearances
2.8 Locking devices and switches for car and landing
      entrances
2.9 Speed, loading and car capacity
2.10 Requirements for drive
2.11 Counterweights
Section 3. Lifts with totally enclosed car and
            enclosures at the upper levels
3.1 General safety factor
3.2 Lift well enclosure
3.3 Guides and fixings
3.4 Buffers
3.5 Top and bottom clearances and runbys
3.6 Lift car
3.7 Door construction and clearances
3.8 Locking devices and switches for car and landing
      entrances
3.9 Speed, loading and car capacity
3.10 Requirements for drive
3.11 Counterweights
Section 4. Lifts with partially enclosed car and
            enclosures at each level
4.1 General safety factor
4.2 Lift well enclosure
4.3 Guides and fixings
4.4 Buffers
4.5 Top and bottom clearances and runbys
4.6 Lift car
4.7 Door construction and clearances
4.8 Locking devices and switches for car and landing
      entrances
4.9 Speed, loading and car capacity
4.10 Requirements for drive
4.11 Counterweights
Section 5. Lifts with partially enclosed car with no
            enclosure at the lowest level
5.1 General safety factor
5.2 Lift well enclosure
5.3 Guides and fixings
5.4 Buffers
5.5 Top and bottom clearances and runbys
5.6 Lift car
5.7 Door construction and clearances
5.8 Locking devices and switches for car and landing
      entrances
5.9 Speed, loading and car capacity
5.10 Requirements for drive
5.11 Counterweights
Section 6. Lifts with partially enclosed car and no
            enclosures
6.1 Installation
6.2 General safety factor
6.3 Liftway
6.4 Guides and fixings
6.5 Buffers
6.6 Top and bottom clearances and runbys
6.7 Lift car
6.8 Door construction and clearances
6.9 Locking devices and switches for car entrances
6.10 Speed, loading and car capacity
6.11 Requirements for drive
6.12 Counterweights
Section 7. Drive systems
7.1 Rope and chain suspension systems
7.2 Hydraulic systems
Section 8. Testing, inspection and servicing
8.1 Test and examination after installation
8.2 Periodic examination, tests and servicing
Appendices
A Guidance to purchaser
B Recommendations for the provision and use of
      remote control devices, specially adapted
      switches, and sensors for use lift control
      switches
C Example of proforma for certificate required for
      test and examination after installation
D Ram design calculations
E In-use periodic examinations, tests and servicing
F Certificate required for periodic examination
G Certificate of acceptance by purchaser/user
Table
1 Key to symbols for ram calculations
Figures
1 Control circuit supply circuit (see 1.5.4.2)
2 Internal floor area v. car capacity
3 Typical example of load plate
4 Example of domestic lift with partially enclosed
      car and no enclosures
5 Angle of fleet
6 Typical example of direction label for manual
      operation
7 Ram wall thickness
8 Flat base with relieving groove
9 Domed base
10 Flat base with welded flange
11 Examples of single jack arrangements
12 Examples of telescopic jack arrangements without
      external guidance
13 Examples of telescopic jack arrangements with
      external guidance

Minimum safety rules for the design, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of lifts specifically to be used by disabled persons in private dwellings.