BS EN 81-41:2010 PDF

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.