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EN 81-45 Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods — Part 45: Powered Vertical lifting platforms, with partial liftway enclosures intended for use by persons with impaired mobility cen:proj:75899

Scope

The standard will cover the safety requirements for construction, 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, rope traction drive, traction drive, rope positive drive, chains, toothed belts, screw and nut, guided chain, scissors mechanism or hydraulic jack (direct or indirect);
— with a rated speed not greater than 0,15 m/shaving a travel distance that is not greater than 3 m;
— with platforms where the carrier is not completely enclosed.
1.2 The standard will deal with all significant hazards relevant to lifting platforms, when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer

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