BS EN 81-42:2025 - Page 2

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:

1. designed in accordance with usual engineering practice and calculation codes, taking into account all failure modes;

2. of sound mechanical and electrical construction;

3. free of defects.

1.4

This document is not applicable to lifting appliances manufactured before the date of its publication.