BS 5900:2012 PDF

What is this standard about? BS 5900:2012 specifies requirements for the design, manufacture, installation, commissioning, testing, maintenance and dismantling of new permanently installed electrically powered homelifts. Who is this standard for?

Product designer Manufacturers and suppliers Lift installers/engineers Maintenance staff and facilities managers Testers Users of homelifts

Why should you use this standard? BS 5900:2012 provides guidance and the most up-to-date recommendations for homelifts that are installed in private dwellings and are intended for the transport of persons with impaired mobility, standing or seated, with or without a wheelchair. The specifications cover structures travelling vertically between two predefined levels along a guided path where the inclination to the vertical does not exceed 15°, where the carrier is partially enclosed and at a speed no greater than 0.15m/s. Although this standard is intended for new homelifts, it can also be used as guidance for the refurbishment and re-installation of existing homelifts. What’s changed since the last update?

BS 5900:2012 has been fully revised by experts to bring it up to date with technological developments and industry best practice The principal changes are to update the text to meet the essential health and safety requirements of the latest Machinery Directives and Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations It supersedes BS 5900:1999 which is withdrawn