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Title
Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators Includes Requirements for Elevators, Escalators, Dumbwaiters, Moving Walks, Material Lifts, and Dumbwaiters With Automatic Transfer Devices
Canadian Standards Association
Publication Date:
Feb 1, 2007
Scope:
Equipment Covered by this Code
This Code covers the design, construction, operation,
inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the
following equipment and its associated parts, rooms, spaces, and
hoistways, where located in or adjacent to a building or structure
(see 1.2):
(a) hoisting and lowering mechanisms, equipped with a car, that
move between two or more landings. This equipment includes, but is
not limited to elevators (see 1.3).
(b) power-driven stairways and walkways for carrying persons
between landings. This equipment includes, but is not limited to
escalators and moving walks (see 1.3).
(c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car that
serves two or more landings and is restricted to the carrying of
material by its limited size or limited access to the car. This
equipment includes, but is not limited to dumbwaiters and material
lifts (see 1.3).
Equipment Not Covered by this Code
Equipment not covered by this Code includes, but is not limited
to, the following:
(a) personnel hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.4 and
CSA-Z185
(b) material hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.5 and
CSA-Z256
(c) platform lifts and stairway chairlifts within the scope of
ASME A18.1, CSA B355, and CSA B613
(d) manlifts within the scope of ASME A90.1 and CSA B311, and in
jurisdictions enforcing NBCC Special Purpose Personnel Elevators
(ASME A17.1, Section 5.7)
(e) mobile scaffolds and towers; platforms within the scope of
ANSI/SIA A92 and CSA-B354
(f) powered platform and equipment for exterior and interior
building maintenance within the scope of ASME A120.1 and
CSA-Z271
(g) conveyors and related equipment within the scope of ASME
B20.1
(h) cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings within
the scope of ASME B30, CSA Z150, CSA B167, CSA Z202, and CSA
Z248
(i) industrial trucks within the scope of ASME B56 and CSA
B335
(j) portable equipment, except for portable escalators, that are
covered by 6.1
(k) tiering or piling machines used to move material to and from
storage located and operating entirely within one story
(l) equipment for feeding or positioning material at machine
tools, printing presses, etc.
(m) skip or furnace hoists
(n) wharf ramps
(o) amusement devices
(p) stage and orchestra lifts
(q) lift bridges
(r) railroad car lifts and dumpers
(s) mechanized parking garage equipment
(t) line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving platforms, and
similar equipment used for installing an elevator
(u) platform elevators installed in a ship or offshore drilling
rig and used for the purpose of loading and unloading cargo,
equipment, and personnel
(v) dock levelers (freight platform lifts) having a rise of 500
mm (20 in.) or less
(w) in Canadian jurisdictions, devices having a rise of 2
000mm(79 in.) or less and used only for the transfer of materials
or equipment
(x) in jurisdictions enforcing NBCC, mine elevators within the
scope of 5.9
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