20/30407961 DC

This standard 20/30407961 DC BS EN 81-71. Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Particular applications to passenger lifts and goods passenger lifts is classified in these ICS categories:

• 91.140.90 Lifts. Escalators

This document gives requirements in order to ensure the safety of persons when using lifts which are subject to different expected levels of vandalism:

• Category 1, where lifts are in general public, in locations which are unobserved and limited acts of vandalism might occur, e.g. an enclosed lift in a shopping center;

• Category 2, where lifts are in general public, in locations which are unobserved where stronger acts of vandalism can be expected e.g. a lift in a public car park.

This document is not applicable to lifts installed before the date of its publication.