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NEN EN 81-80 : 2003
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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
12-01-2013
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
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