SSH EN 81-42:2025

Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Part 42: Vertical lifting appliances with enclosed carrier intended for use by persons, including persons with disability

Scope

1.1 This document specifies safety requirements for design, construction and manufacturing of permanently installed electrically powered vertical lifting appliances affixed to a building structure intended for use by persons, including persons with disability:
- travelling vertically between predefined levels along a guided path whose inclination to the vertical does not exceed 15°;
- supported or sustained by rack and pinion, rope traction drive, noncircular elastomeric-coated suspension means (hereafter called traction belts) traction drive, rope positive drive, chains, timing belts, screw and nut, guided chain or hydraulic jack (direct or indirect);
- with enclosed wells;
- with a rated speed not greater than 0,15 m/s;
- with the carrier completely enclosed;
- with a temperature in the well and in the machinery spaces between +5 °C and +40 °C.
1.2 This document does not specify additional requirements for:
- lightning protection;
- operation subject to ATEX rules;
- lifting appliances whose primary function is the transportation of goods;
- earthquakes, flooding;
- firefighting and evacuation;
- noise and vibrations;
- the transport of type-C wheelchairs as defined in EN 12183:2022 and/or EN 12184:2022;
- vertically sliding doors.
1.3 Components incorporated in a lifting appliance installation are:
a) designed in accordance with usual engineering practice and calculation codes, taking into account all failure modes;
b) of sound mechanical and electrical construction;
c) free of defects.
1.4 This document is not applicable to lifting appliances manufactured before the date of its publication.

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