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1 Introduction
2 Changes at a glance 14 Henrietta Street Museum
3 Passenger safety
3.1 Improved lift strength
3.2 Unintended car movement and safety
3.3 Evacuation
3.4 Lighting
3.5 Lift material for fire resistance
4 Service personnel safety
4.1 Improved lift strength
4.2 Car roof and refuge spaces
4.3 Lighting
4.4 Lift pit
4.5 Lift shaft
4.6 Lift controller
4.7 Passenger rescue
5 Building design
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Introduction Broadening our understanding of Dublin’s

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From the 1st September 2017, the European Committee will be enforcing two new standards
for lifts. These new standards are applied to all passenger and goods passenger lifts and will
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affect any lift put into operation from 1st September 2017.

These changes will be enforced to ensure the safety, comfort and accessibility of lifts, and will
be regulated by the CEN.

The changes can be categorised into three main features:

Passenger safety.
Service personnel safety.
Building design.

These changes affect:

Lift doors.
Lift cars.
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Shafts.
Pits.
Working areas for service personnel.
Refuge spaces. Let's talk about the weather
Passenger rescue in case of entrapment.
Building design.

Changes at a glance
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Machine room lighting
Minimum 200 lux at floor at work spaces feedback.
Minimum 50 lux for other spaces

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Safety Cube on Car Roof Increased safety space for maintenance

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Balustrade Improved strength and increased height of

balustrade on car roof Exploring the Colour Rendering Index.

Car Lighting Minimum 100 lux at 1m above floor

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Car New requirements on strength of car walls

Doors Increased requirements on strength of car

and landing doors

Shaft Lighting Minimum 50 lux in working areas

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Passenger safety

Improved lift strength

Of course, to be safe, a lift must be strong enough to hold the weight of its passengers. All
parts of the lift must meet the lift strength requirements set out by the new safety standards,
including the wall, car and landing door.

This applies to all lifts, no matter their design, so lift walls made of glass must also be able to
withstand shock to ensure that the integrity of the lift walls is maintained. For a rigid pendulum
with a drop height of 0.5 m, it must withstand a shock of 10 kg. For a soft pendulum with a drop ECA reviews the shape of the construction job
height of 0.7 m, it must be able to withstand a shock on 45 kg. market.

Walls and doors must withstand 1000 N without any permanent deformation of 10 mm for
doors and 1 mm for walls which must also take no elastic deformation of a minimum of 15 mm. What's that sound?

Doors must also withstand 300 N without permanent deformation of a minimum of 1 mm

without elastic deformation of a minimum of 15 mm.

Unintended car movement and safety

Unintended car movement can cause injury to passengers, so additional safety requirements
have been stated by the new standards. This includes the extension of the ascending car
overspeed and a prevention measure to prevent the car from moving from the landing.
The doors of the lift must not close when they are obstructed, so photoelectric sensors with
increased sensitivity are to be installed by lift car entrances.

There must also be a locking mechanism which will prevent doors from being opened from the
inside. They must lock when outside of the unlocking zone as well to prevent passengers from
falling into the lift shaft.

Evacuation

In order to prevent injury to passengers in the case of a self-rescue, there must be a car door
opening restrictor and passengers must be unable to open the car door from the inside when
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the lift is outside of the unlocking zone.

To ensure the safety of passengers and service personnel in the case of an evacuation, the
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roof safety hatch must have the dimensions of 0.4 m x 0.5 m and the toe guard must withstand
300 N without permanent deformation of a minimum of 1 mm and elastic deformation of a
minimum of 35 mm.

Lighting

Lighting within the car has an increased minimum lux of 100 from 50. In the case of emergency
lighting, it must have 5 lux for one hour and be placed at 1 m height in the centre of the car
near the emergency push buttons.

Lift material for fire resistance

There are now stricter requirements for the fire resistance of materials used in lifts.
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Ceiling classifications: C, s2, d0. zero.
Floor classifications: Cfl, s2.
Wall classifications: C, s2, d1.
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‘C’ and ‘Cl’ refer to the reaction to fire and ‘s’ and ‘d’ refer to materials when it comes to smoke
and the formation of flaming droplets and particles.

Service personnel safety

Improved lift strength

According to the new lift standards, lifts must withstand a heavier force than required by
previous regulations.

Balustrades are to withstand 1,000 N without elastic deformation of more than 50 mm. When
the distance between the balustrade and the wall are between 0.3 m and 0.5 m, the height of
the balustrade must be 0.7 m. If the distance between the balustrade and the wall is more than WICE Woman Architectural Technologist of the
0.5 m, the balustrade height must be 1.10 m. Year 2019.

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Engineers must be able to access the pit through a landing door that they must be able to open
from the lift shaft and exit, even when the landing door is closed. The roof must be able to
withstand a force of 2,000 N on an area of 0.3 m x 0.3 m without suffering any deformations.
The balustrade must have a height of 1.1 m when there is a minimum distance of 0.5 m from
the lift shaft to the well.

To ensure the safety of service personnel, there must be an emergency light for the car roof,
an anti-slip working surface and a safety chain protection with the installation of a residual
current protected device.

The refuge space for service personnel has also been increased. There must be a height of 0.5
m and 0.7 m x 1 m for horizontal dimensions for the lying position for the pit. There must be a
height of 2 m and 0.4 m x 0.5 m for horizontal dimensions for the upright position. There must
be a height of 1 m and 0.5 m x 0.7 m for horizontal dimensions for the crouching position.
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Lighting
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Not only will new lighting requirements improve safety for passengers, it will also improve
safety for service personnel.

The machine room must have lighting of 200 lux. In the car roof, there must be lighting of 5 lux
for an hour. In working areas and vertically over the car roof, there must be a minimum of 50
lux for 1m over the pit floor. Other areas must have a minimum of 20 lux.

Lift pit

It is crucial that service personnel are protected when working in the lift pit, so the new
standards have introduced new requirements.

There must be an additional emergency stop switch in the lift pit and a control station with
audio capabilities and a connection should there be a case of entrapment. This control station
must be located near the refuge spaces and have a reset function outside of the lift shaft.
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If a lift pit is deeper than 2.5 m, there are tighter safety requirements. Ladders must adhere to Ashford.
location, strength and dimension requirements and the counterweight screen in the pit must be
stronger.
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Lift shaft

In the case of horizontal projections of more than 150 mm, protection must be installed to avoid
them being stepped on. This excludes ledges around the pit when there is a partially enclosed
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To ensure the correct lux levels and conditions for lift servicing, there must be an RCD for
separate 230v circuits and LED lighting. A shaft switch will need to be installed to guarantee an
inspection speed of 0.3 m/s.

Passenger rescue

Passengers and service personnel must be kept safe during passenger rescue, so the new
standards will enforce new dimensions.

Inspection doors must have a maximum height and width of 0.5 m and emergency must have a
minimum height of 1.8 m and a minimum width of 0.5 m.
Trap doors should measure a minimum of 0.8 m x 0.8 m. Pulley room access doors should
have a minimum height of 1.4 m and a minimum width of 0.6 m and shaft and machine room
access doors should have a minimum height of 2 m and a minimum width of 0.6 m.

Building design

When designing a building, there will be certain requirements that must be adhered to which
ensure the safety of lifts.

Shaft walls must withstand 1,000 N and proper ventilation must be accounted for in the
building design. Any glass in the lift shaft must be laminated and the shaft must have a fire
extinguisher. Sprinklers must also activate when the lift is stationary at landing position and the
lighting circuits must turn off in the event of a fire.

The building design must also account for building shrinkage in buildings taller than 40 m in
which the ride distance exceeds 40 m.

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