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John Wilkinson Technical Director Lift & Engineering Services Ltd LEIA Quality & Technical Committee BSI Drafting Panel for Lift Standards
John Wilkinson
Technical Director
Lift & Engineering Services Ltd
LEIA Quality & Technical Committee
BSI Drafting Panel for Lift Standards
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61 Technical file &
instruction for use Goods only lifts
Legend:
Standard published or in process of publication
Standard in development
Proposed new Standard by the revision of EN 81-1, EN 81-2 & EN 81-3
Standards for future development
60 Technical file &
instruction for use Special lifts for
persons & goods
10 System of EN81
series of standards
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Procedures for Risk Assessment
(Today using ISO)
BASICS
&
INTERPRETATIONS
Traction
Hydraulic
etc.
20 Passenger &
goods/passenger lifts
21 Passenger lifts
in existing buildings
22 Passenger
lifts, inclined
28 Remote alarm for passenger /
goods lifts
EN 81-2x LIFTS FOR
TRANSPORT OF PERSONS & GOODS
30 Service lifts
(EN81-3)
31 Accessible
goods-only lifts
EN 81-3x LIFTS FOR
TRANSPORT OF GOODS ONLY
40 Stair lifts and
inclined lifting platforms
41 Vertical
lifting platforms
43 Lifts for
access to work places
EN 81-4x SPECIAL LIFTS
TRANSPORT OF PERSONS & GOODS
50 Examinations,
of lift components
51 Type examinations
of lifts
58 Landing door
fire tests
EN 81-5x
EVALUATIONS
68 Remote monitoring
EN 81-6x DOCUMENTATION
FOR LIFTS
70 Accessibility for
persons with impaired mobility
71 Vandal resistant
lifts
72 Fire-fighters
lifts
73 Behaviour of lifts in the event of fire
76 new
EN 81-7x PARTICULAR
APPLICATIONS PERSONS & GOODS
80 Improvement of safety of existing lifts
81 Modernisation
of lifts
89
EN 81-8x EXISTING
LIFTS
Calculations and tests
Use of lifts for the evacuation of
disabled
EN 81-1x
Interpretations
EN 81
FAMILY
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Accessibility improvement of existing lifts
83 Vandal
resistance improvement of
existing lifts
82
77 new Lifts subject to
seismic conditions
EN 81 Family of Standards
EN81 10 Series
TR81-10: 2008 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Basics and interpretations. System of the EN 81 series of standards
No Change
TS81-11:2011 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts ― Basics and interpretations ― Part 11: Interpretations related to EN 81 family of standards
Revised in 2011 to cover further interpretations to the EN81 series of standards.
EN81-12 (Will not be issued) This document would have covered risk assessment for lifts but is now replaced by EN ISO 14798 - Lifts (elevators), escalators and moving walks. Risk assessment and reduction methodology.
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EN81 20 Series
prEN81-20 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Lifts for the transport of persons and goods — Part 20: Passenger and goods passenger lifts
In development – Released for public comment in September 2011
Will replace EN81-1:1998+A3:2009 and EN81-2:1998+A3:2009
EN81-21:2009 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 building
Under Revision – Change of scope to include A3 of EN81-1/2 introducing uncontrolled movement detection
prEN81-22 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Lifts for transport of persons and goods Part 22: Electric lifts with inclined path
In development – No news at present as to when public comments will have been addressed
prEN81-28 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Remote alarm on passenger and goods passenger lifts
No Change
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EN81 30 Series
EN81-30 Will eventually be used to replace EN81-3:2000+A1:2008 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Electric and hydraulic service lifts.
TS81-31:2010 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Lifts for the transport of goods only. Accessible goods only lifts
This will probably be the subject of a corrigendum in order to resolve some small errors noticed after publication.
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EN81 40 Series
EN81-40:2008 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods. Stairlifts and inclined lifting platforms intended for persons with impaired mobility.
No Change
EN81-41:2010 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods. Vertical lifting platforms intended for use by persons with impaired mobility
This standard is in the early stages of amendment. As yet the scope of the amendment is to be determined.
EN81-43:2009 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods. Lifts for cranes No Change
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EN81 50 Series
prEN81-50 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Lifts for the transport of persons and goods — Part 50: Design rules, calculations, examinations and tests of lift components In development – Currently released for public comment Will replace EN81-1:1998+A3:2009 and EN81-2:1998+A3:2009
EN81-51 Reserved for a standard to cover the type examination of lifts. As yet no work is planned for this document.
EN81-58 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Examination and tests. Landing doors fire resistance test.
No Change
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EN81 60 Series
This number series is reserved for standards regarding technical files and also remote monitoring.
As yet no work has been planned for these documents.
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EN81 70 Series
TR81-70: 2003 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts. Accessibility to lifts for persons including persons with disability.
Under review to determine if revision is necessary.
TS81-71:2005 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Particular applications to passenger lifts and goods passenger lifts. Vandal resistant lifts.
No Change.
EN81-72:2003 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts. Fire fighters lifts.
Under review to determine if revision is necessary.
EN81-73:2005 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts. Behaviour of lifts in the event of fire.
Under review to determine if revision is necessary.
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EN81 70 Series
TS81-76:2011 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Particular applications for passengers and goods passenger lifts - Part 76: Evacuation of disabled persons using lifts.
Published as a new advisory document. At present it does not replace BS9999 Annex G.
prEN81-77 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Particular applications to passenger lifts and goods passenger lifts. Lifts subject to seismic conditions.
In development following public comment
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EN81 80 Series
EN81-80: 2008 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Existing lifts. Rules for the improvement of safety of existing passenger and goods passenger lifts
Recently reviewed and agreed no amendment will be made until after publication of EN81:20
EN81 - 81 Modernisation of Lifts
Standard for Future Development
TS81-82:2008 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Existing lifts. Improvement of the accessibility of existing lifts for persons including persons with disability This is being considered for adoption as EN81:82 without change from the TS version
EN81-83:2009 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Existing lifts. Rules for the improvement of the resistance against vandalism.
No Change
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EN115-1:2008+A1:2010 Safety of escalators and moving walks. Construction and installation
Under review. The working group has recently surveyed the national standard bodies to see which
items they wish to see changed or improved
EN115-2:2010 Safety of escalators and moving walks. Rules for the improvement of safety of existing escalators and
moving walks
No Change
TR115-3:2009 Safety of escalators and moving walks. Correlation between EN 115:1995 and its amendments and
EN 115-1:2008 .
No Change
TS115-4 Safety of escalators and moving walks. Test standard.
This is a new standard in development and will enable the committee responsible for EN115 to
publish interpretations s for the escalator/moving walk standards in a similar way to that done for lifts
EN115 Series
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BS7255:2012 Safe Working on Lifts
Released October 2012
BS7801:2011 Escalators and moving walks. Code of practice for safe working on escalators and moving walks
New standard recently published
New Standard Safe Working on Lifting Platforms.
MHE-4 have requested of BSI a new work item to produce a standard on safe working at lifting
platform installations.
BS5655-6:2011 Lifts and service lifts. Code of practice for the selection and installation of new lifts
New standard recently published
BSI
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BSI
BS6440:2011 Powered vertical lifting platforms having non-enclosed or partially enclosed liftways intended for use by persons with impaired mobility
New standard recently published
BS5900:2012 Specification for powered domestic lifts with partially enclosed cars and no lift-well enclosures
New version recently published taking into account EN81-41 standard
BS8486-1/2:2007 + A1:2011 Examination and test of new lifts before putting into service. Specification for means of determining compliance with BS EN 81 .
Recently published to take in to account the changes made in EN81-1/2 + A3.
BS5656-1:1997 Safety rules for the construction and installation of escalators and passenger conveyors. Specification and proformas for test and examination of new installations . To be revised taking into account EN115-1.
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LEIA Current Development Work
New Code of Practice
Maintenance Requirements for Lifts, Lifting Platforms, Escalators and Moving Walks
Draft version now in circulation for LEIA members comments
Possible issue date mid 2013
John Wilkinson
Technical Director
Lift & Engineering Services Ltd
December 2012
