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BSI 23/30464820 DC 2023

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BS 7255 Safe working on lifts. Code of practice

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BSI 2023 78
Guaranteed Safe Checkout
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PDF Pages PDF Title
1 30464820_Form 36
3 30464820
8 Introduction
9 1 Scope
2 Normative references
10 3 Terms and definitions
3.1 authorized person
3.2 car
3.3 competent person
3.4 construction site
11 3.5 isolating switch
3.6 lift
3.7 lift contractor
3.8 lift landing
3.9 lift machine
3.10 lock-off device
3.11 machinery space
3.12 maintenance
3.13 multiple installation
12 3.14 observation lift
3.15 owner
3.16 passenger
3.17 permit to work
3.18 pit
3.19 positive drive lift
3.20 pulley room
3.21 rated load
3.22 risk assessment
3.23 safe system of work
3.24 user
3.25 well
13 3.26 worker
3.27 workplace
3.28 work platform
14 4 Core principles supporting safe working on lifts
4.1 Owner’s safety survey
4.2 Safety signs
4.3 Health and safety file
15 4.4 Owner’s documentation
16 4.5 Reporting and exchange of information
4.6 Training and competence
4.6.1 General
17 4.6.2 Owner
18 4.6.3 Lift fitter
4.6.4 Lift testers (or persons carrying out such functions)
4.6.5 Lift inspectors and engineer surveyors
4.6.6 Consultants and tradespersons
5 Safety responsibilities of owners and persons working on lifts
5.1 Organizational arrangements
5.1.1 Housekeeping
19 5.1.2 Effects on the occupants
5.1.3 Access to tools, equipment and materials
5.1.4 Permits to work
5.1.5 Asbestos
20 5.1.6 Removal of a lift from service
5.1.7 Returning a lift to service
5.1.8 Well-being of persons working alone
21 5.1.9 Well-being of a person working with others
5.2 Responsibility for work
5.2.1 Owners
22 5.2.2 Workers
5.3 Liaison
5.3.1 General
5.3.2 Owners
5.3.3 Workers
23 5.4 General safety measures and risk assessment
5.4.1 Owners
24 5.4.2 Workers
5.5 Personal protective equipment
5.5.1 Owners
25 5.5.2 Workers
5.6 Electrical supplies and equipment
5.6.1 General
5.6.2 Owners
26 5.6.3 Workers
5.7 Working within the well
5.7.1 Owners
30 5.7.2 Workers
5.7.2.1 Generally working within the well
5.7.2.2 Working on the car top
31 5.7.2.3 Working in the pit
32 5.8 Working at landing entrances
33 5.8.1 Owners
5.8.2 Workers
34 5.9 Working in machinery rooms, spaces and pulley rooms
5.9.1 Owners
35 5.9.2 Workers
36 5.10 Safe release of passengers trapped in a lift
5.10.1 Owners
37 5.10.2 Workers
5.11 Observation lifts and lifts in unusual environments
5.11.1 Owners
5.11.2 Workers
38 5.12 Major repair and dismantling
39 Annex A (informative) Improvements for safe working on older lifts
45 Annex B (informative) Enhancements to car top inspection control stations
B.1 General
47 B.2 Installation
48 B.3 Buttons, switches, shrouds, notices and covers
49 Annex C (informative) Typical safety signs
60 Annex D (normative) Electrical working
D.1 Working on isolated electrical equipment
61 D.2 Working on live electrical equipment
D.3 Earth continuity testing and verification of conditions for protection by automatic disconnection of the supply
62 D.4 Use of shorting links
63 Annex E (normative) Procedures for safe working on the car top of lifts conforming to BS EN 81-20:2020 (including use of a car top inspection control station)
E.1 General
64 E.2 Checking the safety devices at landing doors and car top stop switch
E.2.1 Checking the landing door safety devices
E.2.2 Checking the car top stop switch
65 E.3 Checking the car top inspection control station operation
E.4 Accessing and working on the car top
66 E.5 Leaving the car top
E.6 Interlocking of car top inspection control stations and pit inspection control stations when people are working both on a car top and in the pit
68 Annex F (normative) Procedures for safe working in a lift pit area of a lift conforming to BS EN 81-20:2020 (including use of a pit inspection control station)
69 F.1 General
F.2 Checking the landing door safety devices and pit stop switch(s)
F.2.1 Checking the landing door safety devices
70 F.2.2 Checking the pit stop switch(es)
F.3 Accessing a pit that either does not have a pit inspection control station installed or has one installed that is not going to be used
71 F.4 Accessing a pit and using an installed pit inspection control station to move the lift
72 F.5 Leaving the pit
F.6 Interlocking of car top inspection control stations and pit inspection control stations when people are working both on a car top and in the pit
73 Annex G (normative) Additional procedures for installation, major repair and dismantling: responsibilities of owners and persons working on lifts
G.1 General
G.2 Suspended work platforms
74 G.3 Temporary protection at landings
G.3.1 New buildings under construction
G.3.2 Existing buildings
G.4 Temporary electrical supplies and lighting
75 G.5 Environment
G.6 Fire hazards
G.7 Decommissioning and dismantling
G.7.1 Decommissioning
G.7.2 Dismantling
BSI 23/30464820 DC 2023
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