BS EN 81-80:2003

Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 List of significant hazards
  4.1 Significant hazards dealt with by this standard
  4.2 Significant hazards not dealt with by this standard
5 Safety requirements and/or protective measures
  5.1 General
  5.2 Accessibility requirements
       5.2.1 General
       5.2.2 Levelling and stopping accuracy
  5.3 Requirements against vandalism
  5.4 Behaviour of lifts in the event of fire
  5.5 Well
       5.5.1 Well enclosures
       5.5.2 Inspection and emergency doors to well and
              access to the pit
       5.5.3 Wall of the well
       5.5.4 Protection of any accessible spaces located
              below the car, the counterweight or the
              balancing weight
       5.5.5 Counterweight or balancing weight screen
       5.5.6 Screens
       5.5.7 Headroom and pit clearances
       5.5.8 Pit access
       5.5.9 Pit and pulley room stopping device
       5.5.10 Lighting of the well
       5.5.11 Emergency release of persons working in well
  5.6 Machine and pulley rooms
       5.6.1 Machine and pulley room access
       5.6.2 Floors of machine and pulley rooms
       5.6.3 Clearances of machinery
       5.6.4 Machine room floor levels and recesses
       5.6.5 Lighting in machine and pulley room
       5.6.6 Handling of equipment
  5.7 Landing doors and car doors
       5.7.1 Imperforate landing doors and car doors
       5.7.2 Landing door fixings
       5.7.3 Use of glass in car doors and landing doors
       5.7.4 Horizontally sliding car doors and landing
              doors with glass
       5.7.5 Lighting of the landing
       5.7.6 Protection against impact from power
              operated horizontally sliding car and
              landing doors
       5.7.7 Locking devices
       5.7.8 Unlocking of landing doors
       5.7.9 Automatic closing of horizontal sliding
              landing doors
       5.7.10 Sliding doors with multiple panels
       5.7.11 Fire rated landing doors
       5.7.12 Hinged landing doors in combination with
              power operated horizontally sliding car
              doors
  5.8 Car, counterweight and balancing weight
       5.8.1 Available car area, rated load
       5.8.2 Avoidance of the risk of people falling
              into the well
       5.8.3 Cars without doors
       5.8.4 Locking of emergency trap doors on the car
       5.8.5 Strength of car roof and emergency trap door
       5.8.6 Protection on the car roof
       5.8.7 Ventilation of the car
       5.8.8 Lighting and emergency lighting in the car
  5.9 Suspension, compensation and overspeed protection
       5.9.1 Protection for traction sheaves, pulleys and
              sprockets
       5.9.2 Safety gear and overspeed governor for
              electric lifts
       5.9.3 Governor rope tensioning device
       5.9.4 Ascending car overspeed and uncontrolled
              movement of the car with open doors
       5.9.5 Protection of hydraulic lifts against free
              fall, descent with excessive speed and
              creeping of the car
  5.10 Guide rails, buffers and final limit switches
       5.10.1 Counterweight or balancing weight guided by
              wire ropes
       5.10.2 Buffers
       5.10.3 Final limit switches
  5.11 Distance between car door and landing door
  5.12 Lift machine
       5.12.1 Electro-mechanical brake (electric lifts)
       5.12.2 Emergency operation
       5.12.3 Shut-off valve (hydraulic lifts)
       5.12.4 Stopping the machine and checking its
              stopped position
       5.12.5 Slack rope/chain electric safety device
       5.12.6 Run-time limiter
       5.12.7 Low cylinder pressure (hydraulic lifts)
  5.13 Electric installations and appliances
       5.13.1 Protection against electric shock
       5.13.2 Protection of the lift machine motors
       5.13.3 Main switches
  5.14 Protection against electric faults, controls,
       priorities
       5.14.1 Phase reversal protection
       5.14.2 Inspection control station and stopping
              device
       5.14.3 Emergency alarm dev
       5.14.4 Communication between car and machine room
       5.14.5 Load control
  5.15 Notices, markings and operating instructions
6 Verification of safety measures and/or protective
  devices
7 Information for use
Annex A (informative) Method for national implementation
        of EN 81-80
  A.1 Identification of hazardous situations
  A.2 Evaluation of hazardous situations
  A.3 Classification of priority levels
Annex B (informative) Safety check list for existing
        lifts
Bibliography

Covers rules for improving the safety of existing lifts with the aim of reaching an equivalent level of safety to that of a newly installed lift by the application of today's state of the art for safety.