BS 5655-2:1988

National foreword
Cooperating organizations
0 Introduction
1 Scope and field of application
2 References
3 Definitions
4 Symbols and abbreviations
5 Lift well
6 Machine and pulley rooms
7 Landing doors
8 Car and counterweight
9 Suspension, precautions against free fall, descent
     with excessive speed and creeping of the car
10 Guides, buffers and final limit switches
11 Clearances between the car and the lift well wall,
     and between car and counterweight
12 Machine, jack and other hydraulic equipment
13 Electric installations and appliances
14 Protection against electric faults; controls;
     priorities
15 Notices and operating instructions
16 Examinations; tests; register; servicing
Appendices
A Conditions for use of electric safety devices
B Unlocking triangle
C Technical dossier
D Examination and tests before going into service
E Periodical examinations and tests. Examinations and
     tests after an important modification or after an
     accident
F Test procedures for type examination
F.0 Introduction
F.1 Landing door locking devices
F.2 Landing doors
F.3 Safety gear
F.4 Overspeed governors
F.5 Energy accumulation type buffers with buffered
     return movement and energy dissipation buffers
G Recommendations for fire protection
National appendices
V National variations
W Corresponding British Standards for International
     Standards and for CENELEC Harmonization Documents
     referred to
X National alphabetical index
Y National Committees responsible for this British
     Standard

Requirements for passenger and goods lifts to safeguard passengers and maintenance personnel against injury. Covers mechanical and electrical construction, relevant structural features of the building in which it is installed and subsequent examination and testing.

ⓃThis standard deals with permanently installed new lifts serving defined landing levels, having a car designed for the transportation of persons and/or goods, suspended by rope(s) or chain(s) or supported by one or more rams and moving at least partially between vertical guides or guides slightly inclined to the vertical. [For appliances where the inclination of the guides to the vertical exceeds 15°, this standard may usefully be taken as a basis (N.a, b).] ⓃIt does not cover the lifts which come under the following headings: paternosters, rack and pinion elevators, screw-driven elevators, mine lifts, theatrical lifts, appliances with automatic caging, skips, lifts and hoists for building and public works sites, ships’ hoists, platforms for exploration or drilling at sea, construction and maintenance appliances. However, this standard may usefully be taken as a basis. This standard need not be applied (N.a) in the following cases: a lift installed in a private residence or as a means of access to a private residence in a building, such that the lift is inaccessible to the other occupants of the building and to the general public, and if there are specific national rules concerning this type of lift; Ⓝthe installation of lifts serving only two levels, specialized for transporting the handicapped and where the travel does not exceed 4m, the speed does not exceed 0.1m/s, and the movement of the car requires continuous pressure on a button. Certain clauses need not be applied (N.b) to the extent that space does not permit, in the following cases: lifts installed in buildings in existence at the time this standard is brought into application; important modifications (AppendixE) to a lift installed before this standard is brought into application. This standard is divided into four Parts. Part1: deals with electric lifts; Part2: deals with hydraulic lifts; Part3: deals with electric service lifts (in preparation); Part4: deals with hydraulic service lifts (in preparation).