• DIN EN 81-80:2004-02

    Superseded A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

    SAFETY RULES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF LIFTS - EXISTING LIFTS - PART 80: RULES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF SAFETY OF EXISTING PASSENGER AND GOODS PASSENGER LIFTS

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Superseded date:  09-11-2019

    Language(s):  German, English

    Published date:  01-01-2004

    Publisher:  German Institute for Standardisation (Deutsches Institut für Normung)

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    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

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    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.

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    Development Note DRAFT 2016 issued in December 2016. (12/2016)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher German Institute for Standardisation (Deutsches Institut für Normung)
    Status Superseded

    Standards Referenced By This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    VDI 3810 Blatt 6:2013-11 Operating and maintenance of buildings and building installations - Lifts

    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    EN 294:1992/AC:1993 SAFETY OF MACHINERY - SAFETY DISTANCES TO PREVENT DANGER ZONES BEING REACHED BY THE UPPER LIMBS
    ISO/TS 14798:2006 Lifts (elevators), escalators and moving walks Risk assessment and reduction methodology
    PREN 81-21 : DRAFT 2009 SAFETY RULES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF LIFTS - LIFTS FOR THE TRANSPORT OF PERSONS AND GOODS - PART 21: NEW PASSENGER AND GOODS PASSENGER LIFTS IN EXISTING BUILIDING
    PREN 81-71 : DRAFT 2015 SAFETY RULES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF LIFTS - PARTICULAR APPLICATIONS TO PASSENGER LIFTS AND GOODS PASSENGER LIFTS - PART 71: VANDAL RESISTANT LIFTS
    PREN 81-73 : DRAFT 2014 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
    EN 81-1:1998+A3:2009 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Part 1: Electric lifts
    EN 292-1 : 1991 SAFETY OF MACHINERY - BASIC CONCEPTS, GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGN - BASIC TERMINOLOGY, METHODOLOGY
    1995/16/EC : 1995 DIRECTIVE 95/16/EC OF 29 JUNE 1995 ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE MEMBER STATES RELATING TO LIFTS
    EN 81-2 : 1998 + A3 2009 SAFETY RULES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF LIFTS - PART 2: HYDRAULIC LIFTS
    EN 292-2 : 91 AMD 1 95 SAFETY OF MACHINERY - BASIC CONCEPTS, GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGN - TECHNICAL PRINCIPLES AND SPECIFICATION
    EN 60529:1991/AC:2016-12 DEGREES OF PROTECTION PROVIDED BY ENCLOSURES (IP CODE) (IEC 60529 EDITION 2.2 CORRIGENDUM 2:2015)
    1998/37/EC : 1998 DIRECTIVE 98/37/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 22 JUNE 1998 ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE MEMBER STATES RELATING TO MACHINERY
    EN 1070 : 1998 SAFETY OF MACHINERY - TERMINOLOGY
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