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AS ISO 25740.1:2015
[Current]Safety requirements for escalators and moving walks, Part 1: Global essential safety requirements (GESR)
Adopts ISO/TS25740-1:2011, which specifies global essential safety requirements (GESRs) when using new technologies in the design and certifying of escalators and moving walks.
Published: 21/12/2015
Pages: 42
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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
5 Understanding and implementing GESRs
5.1 Overall objective
5.1.1
5.1.2
5.1.3
5.1.4
5.1.5
5.2 Use of GESRs
5.2.1 Basis
5.2.2 Ways of using GESRs
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
5.2.5 Verification of compliance
5.3 Use of this part of ISO/TS 25740
5.3.1 General considerations
5.3.2 Standards developers
5.3.2.1
5.3.2.2
5.3.2.3
5.3.3 Designers, manufacturers, installers, maintenance and service organisations
5.3.3.1 Escalator and moving walk components and 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 Conformity assessment bodies
5.3.5 Inspection and testing bodies
6 Global essential safety requirements (GESRs)
6.1 General
6.2 Common GESRs related to persons at different locations
6.2.1 Strength and size
6.2.2 Falling down or off the area containing the travel path
6.2.3 Supports for escalator and moving walk equipment
6.2.4 Maintenance of escalators and moving walks
6.2.5 Equipment inaccessible to users and non-users
6.2.6 Surfaces of the LCU, landing and working areas
6.2.7 Hazards due to relative movement
6.2.8 Sharp edges
6.2.9 Hazards arising from the risk of electric shock
6.2.10 Electrical equipment
6.2.11 Electromagnetic compatibility
6.2.12 Illumination of LCU and landings
6.2.13 Effects of earthquake
6.2.14 Hazardous materials
6.2.15 Environmental influences
6.2.16 Noise and vibration
6.2.17 Exclusive use of machinery spaces
6.2.18 Starting
6.3 GESRs related to non-users
6.3.1 Contact with moving or rotating parts
6.3.2 Failure mode
6.3.3 Environmental influence
6.4 GESRs related to persons on the landings
6.4.1 Falling from the landings
6.4.2 Access and egress
6.4.3 Alignment of LCU and landing
6.5 GESRs related to users on the LCU
6.5.1 Strength and size
6.5.2 LCU support
6.5.3 Entrapment between LCU component parts
6.5.4 Entrapment between LCU and adjacent surfaces
6.5.5 Uncontrolled movement of LCU
6.5.6 LCU collision with objects in the travel path
6.5.7 Change of speed of the LCU
6.5.8 Stopping means adjacent to the LCU
6.5.9 Succeeding LCUs
6.5.10 Stopping the LCU
6.6 GESRs related to authorized persons at working areas
6.6.1 Working space
6.6.2 Accessible equipment
6.6.3 Access to and egress from working spaces
6.6.4 Strength of working areas
6.6.5 Movement of the LCU under the sole control of an authorized person
6.6.6 Protection from moving parts
6.6.7 Stopping devices in working areas
6.6.8 Means of protection from various hazards
6.6.9 Electric shock in working spaces
6.6.10 Illumination of working spaces
6.6.11 Harmful materials and environment
6.6.12 Ergonomic principles
6.6.13 Handling and transportation
Annex A
A.1 General
A.2 Summary of GESRs specified in Clause 6
Annex B
B.1 Introduction
B.2 General
B.2.1
B.2.2
B.2.3
B.3 Comparison of GESRs with Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
B.4 Guidance on the implications of the ISO Global Relevance policy
Bibliography
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