BS EN 81-41:2010 - Page 3

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 Vertical lifting platforms intended for use by persons with impaired mobility | Status: Superseded, Withdrawn

1 Scope 1.1 This European Standard deals with safety requirements for construction, manufacturing, installation, maintenance and dismantling of electrically powered vertical lifting platforms affixed to a building structure intended for use by persons with impaired mobility:

• — travelling vertically between predefined levels along a guided path whose inclination to the vertical does not exceed 15°;
• — intended for use by persons with or without a wheelchair;
• — supported or sustained by rack and pinion, wire ropes, chains, screw and nut, friction/traction between wheels and the rail, guided chain, scissors mechanism or hydraulic jack (direct or indirect);
• — with enclosed liftways;
• — with a speed not greater than 0,15 m/s;
• — with platforms where the carrier is not completely enclosed.