EVS-EN 81-42:2025

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.