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EN81-80 Safety norms for existing elevators

The EN81-80 was developed to establish a methodology to specify at a national level, a procedure for improving the safety of existing elevators for passengers and goods.

Lifts were installed to the safety level appropriate at time of installation. This level is often lower than today’s state of the art for safety.

This page categorises various hazards and hazardous situations, each of which has been analysed by a risk assessment.

EN81-80

No	Hazard / Hazardous Situation	Risk
	General
2	No or limited accessibility for disabled persons
4	No or inadequate vandal resistance
5	No or inadequate behaviour of the lift in the event of fire
1	Presence of harmful material	H
	Well
8	Inadequate locking devices on access, emergency, and inspection doors to well and pit	H
8	No stopping of car when access, emergency, and inspection doors to well or pit are opened	H
6	Well enclosures with perforated walls	H
33	Well enclosures with perforated walls near door locks	H
7	Partially enclosed well with too low enclosures	H
9	Inadequate vertical surface below landing door sills	H
10	Counterweight/balancing weight without safety gear in case of accessible spaces below well	L
11	No or inadequate screen of counterweight /balancing weight in the pit	L
12	No or inadequate partition in the pit for lifts in a common well	H
13	No or inadequate partition between moving parts of lifts in a common well	H
14	Insufficient refuge spaces and clearances in headroom	H
14	Insufficient refuge spaces and clearances in pit	H
15	No or inadequate means to enter the pit	H
17	No or inadequate lighting of the well	H
16	No or inadequate stopping device in the pit	H
18	No alarm initiation devices in pit and on car roof	M
58	Excessive horizontal distance between the inner surface of the well and the sill, door frame of the car or closing edge of car sliding doors	H
59	Excessive horizontal distance between car door and landing door	H
	Machinery spaces and pulley rooms
19	No or unsafe means of access to machinery spaces and pulley rooms	H
23	Inadequate lighting in machinery spaces	H
16	No or inadequate stopping device(s) in the pulley room	H
24	Inadequate suspension points for handling of equipment in machinery spaces and top of the well	M
20	Slippery floor in machinery spaces or pulley rooms	L
21	Insufficient horizontal or vertical clearances in machinery spaces	M
22	No or inadequate protection on different levels and recessed in the machine room	H
72	No or inadequate intercom system between car and the location of the emergency operation	M
	Landing doors and car doors
25	Perforate landing doors	H
25	Perforate car doors	H
26	Inadequate strength of landing doors	H
27	Inadequate glass in landing doors other than vision panels	H
27	Inadequate glass in car doors other than vision panels	H
27	Inadequate glass vision panels in landing doors	H
27	Inadequate glass vision panels in car doors	H
30b	No or inadequate protective device (e.g. light curtain) for re-opening of power operated car and landing sliding doors	H
30a	No or inadequate protective device (150N) for reopening of power operated sliding doors	H
28	No or inadequate means against dragging of children hands in horizontally sliding car doors or landing doors with class	M
29	No or inadequate lighting on landings	M
31	No safe locking device on landing door	H
32	No special device (e.g. triangular key) for emergency unlocking of landing door	H
34	No or inadequate locking of the landing door after opening for whatever reason when the car is outside the locking zone	H
35	Inadequate link between multiple panels of landing doors (missing interlink or missing locking)	M
36	Inadequate fire resistance of landing doors	M
37	Car door moving with open (hinged) landing door	M
40	Car without door(s)	H
	Car, counterweight, and balancing weight
38	Large car area in relation to rated load	L
39	No car apron or inadequate length of car apron	H
41	Unsafe locking of emergency trap door	M
42	Insufficient strength of emergency trap door	L
43	No or inadequate protection against falling from car roof	H
44	Insufficient ventilation in car	M
45	Inadequate lighting in car	M
46	No or inadequate emergency lighting in car	M
73	No or inadequate load control	L
71	No or inadequate remote alarm system	H
	Suspension means, compensation means, precautions against free fall, excessive overspeed, unintended car movement and creeping of the car
47	No or inadequate protection against injury from traction sheaves, pulleys, or sprockets	M
48	No or inadequate protection against rope/chain leaving the sheaves, pulleys, or sprockets	M
49	No or inadequate protection against the introduction of objects between ropes/chains and sheaves, pulleys, or sprockets	L
50, 54	No or inadequate protection against free fall or descent with excessive speed	H
52	No or inadequate protection means against ascending car overspeed on traction drive lifts with counterweight	M
53	No or inadequate protection means against unintended car movement with open doors	H
54	No or inadequate protection against creeping on hydraulic lifts	H
51	No or inadequate slack rope switch for governor rope	M
63	No inadequate slack rope/chain detection device	M
	Guide rails, buffers, and final limit switches
55	Inadequate guidance system for counterweight or balancing weight	L
56	No or inadequate buffers	H
57	No or inadequate final limit switches	M
	Lift machine
60	No or inadequate emergency operation system	H
62	No or inadequate means for stopping the machine and checking its stopped position	H
64	No motor run time limiter	L
61	No shut off valve (Hydraulic lifts)	L
65	No or inadequate low cylinder pressure device on hydraulic lift	M
	Electric installations and appliances
66	Insufficient protection against electric shock (direct contact)	H
66	Insufficient marking of connection terminal which remain live after switching off the main switch	H
67	No or inadequate protection against overheating of lift machine motor	L
68	No lockable main switch	H
	Protection against electric faults, controls, priorities
69	No protection against phase reversal	L
3	Inadequate levelling and /or stopping accuracy	H
70	No or inadequate inspection control station and stopping device on the car roof	H
11	Notices, markings, and operating instructions
74	Missing notices, markings, and operating instructions	M

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