1 Scope
1.1 This European Standard deals with safety requirements for construction, manufacturing, installation, maintenance and dismantling of electrically powered vertical lifting platforms affixed to a building structure intended for use by persons with impaired mobility:
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— travelling vertically between predefined levels along a guided path whose inclination to the vertical does not exceed 15°;
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— intended for use by persons with or without a wheelchair;
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— supported or sustained by rack and pinion, wire ropes, chains, screw and nut, friction/traction between wheels and the rail, guided chain, scissors mechanism or hydraulic jack (direct or indirect);
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— with enclosed liftways;
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— with a speed not greater than 0,15 m/s;
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— with platforms where the carrier is not completely enclosed.