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

1.1This European Standard gives rules for improving existing lifts with the aim of reaching today's state of the art of general safety.NOTEDue to situations such as the building design etc. it may not be possible in all cases to reach today's state of the art.1.2This standard has taken into consideration safety requirements of the directives listed in the Bibliography and of EN 81 series of the safety standards for lifts.NOTEThe EN 81-series of standards for particular applications can be used as a basis for improving safety of existing lifts, providing they have been officially accepted. However, not all clauses may apply or be "reasonably practicable" (see note to 1.3).1.3It is the responsibility of each national authority to apply this standard and to determine its own programme of implementation in a step by step process (see Annex A (normative)) in a reasonable and practicable way based on :¾ the level of risk (e.g. extreme, high, medium, low) ;¾ social and economic considerations.NOTE"Reasonably practicable" is defined as follows : "In deciding what is reasonably practicable the seriousness of risk to injury should be weighted against the difficulty and cost of removing or reducing that risk. In considering the cost no allowance should be made for the size, nature or profitability of the business concerned. Where the difficulty and costs are high, and a careful assessment of the risk shows it to be comparatively unimportant, action may not need to be taken. On the other hand where the risk is high, action should be taken at whatever cost".1.4This standard includes the improvement of safety for :a) users of passenger and goods passenger lifts ;b) lift maintenance and inspection personnel ;c) persons outside the well, machine room and the pulley room (if any) ;d) any authorised persons.1.5Excluded from this standard are the following :a) rack and pinions lifts, screw and chain lifts etc. ;b) lifting appliances