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AS ISO 22559.1:2015
[Current]Safety requirements for lifts (elevators), Part 1: Global essential safety requirements (GESRs)
Specifies global essential safety requirements (GESRs) for lifts (elevators), their components and functions, and establishes a system and provides methods for minimizing safety risks that may arise in the course of the operation and use of, or work on, lifts (elevators).
Published: 29/06/2015
Pages: 99
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
4 Approach and methodology
4.1 Background
4.1.1
4.1.2
4.1.3
4.2 Approach
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.2.3
4.3 Methodology
4.3.1
4.3.2
4.3.3
5 Understanding and implementing GESRs
5.1 Overall objective
5.1.1
5.1.2
5.1.3
5.1.4
5.2 Use of GESRs
5.2.1 Basis
5.2.2 Ways of using GESRs
5.2.2.1
5.2.2.2
5.2.2.3
5.2.3 Applicability of GESRs
5.2.4 Safety objectives of GESRs
5.2.4.1
5.2.4.2
5.2.4.3
5.2.5 Verification of compliance
5.3 Use of this part of ISO 22559
5.3.1 Users
5.3.2 Standards writers
5.3.2.1
5.3.2.2
5.3.2.3
5.3.3 Designers, manufacturers, installers, and maintenance, repair and service organizations
5.3.3.1 Lift systems, lift components and lift functions
5.3.3.2 Proof of compliance
5.3.3.2.1
5.3.3.2.2
5.3.3.2.3
5.3.4 Inspection and testing bodies
6 Global essential safety requirements (GESRs)
6.1 Common GESRs related to persons at different locations
6.1.1 Supports for lift equipment
6.1.2 Lift maintenance and repair instructions
6.1.3 Equipment inaccessible to users and non-users
6.1.4 Floors of the LCU and working areas
6.1.5 Hazards due to relative movement
6.1.6 Locking landing doors and closing LCU doors
6.1.7 Evacuation
6.1.8 Sharp edges
6.1.9 Hazards arising from the risk of electrical shock
6.1.10 Electromagnetic compatibility
6.1.11 Illumination of the LCU and the landings
6.1.12 Effects of earthquakes
6.1.13 Hazardous materials
6.1.14 Environmental influences
6.2 GESRs related to persons adjacent to the lift
6.2.1 Falling into the well (hoistway)
6.3 GESRs related to persons at entrances
6.3.1 Access and egress
6.3.2 Horizontal sill-to-sill gap
6.3.3 Alignment of the LCU and the landing
6.3.4 Self-evacuation from the LCU
6.3.5 Gap between the landing doors and the LCU doors
6.3.6 Means to reopen doors when the LCU is at the landing
6.4 GESRs related to persons in the LCU
6.4.1 Strength and size
6.4.2 LCU support/suspension
6.4.3 Overloaded LCU
6.4.4 Falling from the LCU
6.4.5 LCU travel path limits
6.4.6 Uncontrolled movement of the LCU
6.4.7 LCU collision with objects in or beyond the travel path
6.4.8 LCU horizontal or rotational motion
6.4.9 Change of speed or acceleration
6.4.10 Objects falling on the LCU
6.4.11 LCU ventilation
6.4.12 Fire/smoke in the LCU
6.4.13 LCU in flooded areas
6.4.14 Stopping means inside the LCU
6.4.15 Landing and controls indication
6.5 GESRs related to persons in working areas
6.5.1 Working area(s) or space(s)
6.5.2 Accessible equipment
6.5.3 Access to and egress from working spaces in the well (hoistway)
6.5.4 Strength of working area(s)
6.5.5 Restrictions on equipment in lift spaces
6.5.6 Falling from working areas
6.5.7 LCU movement under control of an authorized person
6.5.8 Uncontrolled or unintended equipment movement inside the well (hoistway)
6.5.9 Means of protection from various hazards
6.5.10 Falling objects in the well (hoistway)
6.5.11 Electric shock in working spaces
6.5.12 Illumination of working spaces
Annex A
A.1 General
A.2 References and symbols in Table A.1
A.2.1 Symbols in the table heading identifying lift subsystems
A.2.2 Symbols in the table columns
Annex B
Annex C
C.1 General
C.1.1
C.1.2
C.1.3
C.1.4
C.1.5
C.1.6
C.1.7
C.1.8
C.2 A Comparison of ISO 22559‑1 GESRs and the Lifts Directive EHSRs
Bibliography
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Lifts (elevators), escalators and moving walks - Risk assessment and reduction methodology
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