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Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods-Stairlifts and inclined lifting platforms intended for persons with impaired mobility

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This document deals with safety requirements for construction, manufacturing, installation, maintenance and dismantling of electrically operated stairlifts (chair, standing platform and wheelchair platform) affixed to a building structure, moving in an inclined plane and intended for use by persons with impaired mobility:

— travelling over a stair or an accessible inclined surface;
— intended for use by one person;
— whose carriage is directly retained and guided by a guide rail or rails;
— supported or sustained by rope (5.4.4), rack and pinion (5.4.5), chain (5.4.6), friction/traction drive (5.4.7), and guided rope and ball (5.4.8).

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  1. BS EN 81-40:2020

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    September 2020
    Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods-Stairlifts and inclined lifting platforms intended for persons with impaired mobility

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  2. BS EN 81-40:2008

    December 2009
    Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods-Stairlifts and inclined lifting platforms intended for persons with impaired mobility

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  3. BS 04/30111616 DC

    November 2004
    EN 81-40. Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods. Part 40. Stairlifts and inclined lifting platforms intended for persons with impaired mobility

    • Historical Version
  4. BS 5776:1996

    August 2001
    Specification for powered stairlifts

    • Historical Version
  5. BS 5776:1979

    June 1979
    Specification for powered stairlifts

    • Historical Version

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09/16/2020

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