EN 81-42:2025

Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Part 42: Vertical lifting appliances with enclosed carrier intended for use by persons, including persons with disability EN 81-42:2025

Publication date:   Feb 17, 2026

Scope

1.1 This document specifies safety requirements for design, construction and manufacturing of permanently installed electrically powered vertical lifting appliances affixed to a building structure intended for use by persons, including persons with disability:
- travelling vertically between predefined levels along a guided path whose inclination to the vertical does not exceed 15°;
- supported or sustained by rack and pinion, rope traction drive, noncircular elastomeric-coated suspension means (hereafter called traction belts) traction drive, rope positive drive, chains, timing belts, screw and nut, guided chain or hydraulic jack (direct or indirect);
- with enclosed wells;
- with a rated speed not greater than 0,15 m/s;
- with the carrier completely enclosed;
- with a temperature in the well and in the machinery spaces between +5 °C and +40 °C.
1.2 This document does not specify additional requirements for:
- lightning protection;
- operation subject to ATEX rules;
- lifting appliances whose primary function is the transportation of goods;
- earthquakes, flooding;
- firefighting and evacuation;
- noise and vibrations;
- the transport of type-C wheelchairs as defined in EN 12183:2022 and/or EN 12184:2022;
- vertically sliding doors.
1.3 Components incorporated in a lifting appliance installation are:
a) designed in accordance with usual engineering practice and calculation codes, taking into account all failure modes;
b) of sound mechanical and electrical construction;
c) free of defects.
1.4 This document is not applicable to lifting appliances manufactured before the date of its publication.

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