1. EN Safety of escalators and moving walks - Part 2: Rules for the improvement of safety of existing escalators and moving walks
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2. Background European Union
More than escalators and moving walks are in operation
More than 50% were installed in the last century
These machines are operational at different safety levels with different risk levels which may cause accidents.
In today's legal environment, owners and maintenance companies must warrant a high degree of safety for users and service technicians.
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3. Today‘s state of the art of safety Reducing the gap with EN 115-2
Technology R & D, new standards in health and safety regulations
EN115-2
EN115 A2:2004
EN115:1995
EN115 A1:1998
EN115:1983
C.I.R.A.
Safety Existing escalators
1920
1969
1983
1995
2000
2001
2004
2008
2009
2010
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4. Approach of EN 115-2
Categorization of hazards and hazardous situations, each of which has been analyzed by a risk assessment
Provision of corrective actions to
Improve, step by step, the safety of all existing units to today’s state of the art for safety
Enable each unit to be audited and safety measures to be identified and implemented
List the high, medium and low risks and corrective actions which can be applied in separate steps in order to mitigate (reduce) the risks
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5. Use of this standard
National authorities to determine their own programs of implementation in a step by step process
Process in a reasonable and practicable way
based on the level of risk (e.g. high, medium, low) and
social and economic considerations
Owners to follow their responsibilities according to existing regulations (e.g. Use of Work Equipment Directive)
Maintenance companies and/or inspection bodies to inform the owners on the safety level of their installations
Owners to upgrade the existing units on a voluntary basis
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6. The Scope
This European Standard gives rules for improving the safety of existing escalators and moving walks
=> Aims to reach an equivalent level of safety to that of a newly installed escalator and moving walk by the application of today’s state of the art for safety.
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7. The Scope
This standard includes the improvement of safety of existing escalators and moving walks for:
Users
Maintenance and inspection personnel
Persons outside the escalator or moving walk (but in its immediate vicinity)
Authorized persons
This standard is not applicable to:
Safety during transport, installation, repairs and dismantling of escalators and moving walks
Spiral escalators
Accelerating moving walks
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8. List of significant hazards
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9. List of significant hazards
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10. The Safety check list acc. EN 115-2 – The tool to
Identify the significant hazards on an existing escalator or moving walk
Determine which type of protective measure(s) proposed by this standard is/are applicable
Example of 5 out of 65 items:
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11. National implementation of EN 115-2
All technical solutions for upgrading to the state-of-the-art are listed in Clause 5 of this standard
No binding requirements for measures to be carried out on which unit and within which period of time
Subject to national legislation
The given procedures are intended to assist in setting up national regulations
Conclusion: this standard gives examples and templates, but they have to be introduced by national recommendations or laws
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13. Legal environment Today's state of the art of safety is based on
the European Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC,
the harmonized standard EN (Safety of escalators and moving walks – Construction and installation) and
the standard EN (Rules for the improvement of safety of existing escalators and moving walks)
National laws and regulations related to work and operation safety
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14. Contents of EN 115-2 Scope Normative references Terms and definitions
List of significant hazards
Safety requirements and/or protective measures
Verification of improvement measures
Information for use
Annex A (informative) Method for national implementation of EN 115-2
Annex B (informative) Safety check list for existing escalators and moving walks
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15. 2. Normative references
EN 115-1:2008, Safety of escalators and moving walks — Part 1: Construction and installation
EN 13015:2001, Maintenance for lifts and escalators — Rules for maintenance instructions
EN :2006, Safety of machinery — Electrical equipment of machines — Part 1: General requirements (IEC
:2005, modified)
EN ISO :2003, Safety of machinery — Basic concepts, general principles for design — Part 1: Basic
terminology, methodology (ISO :2003)
EN ISO 13850, Safety of machinery — Emergency stop — Principles for design (ISO 13850:2006)
EN ISO 13857:2008, Safety of machinery — Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and
lower limbs (ISO 13857:2008)
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16. 4. List of significant hazards
Hazards not covered in this standard
environmental conditions including e.g. earthquake and flooding;
electromagnetic interferences;
shearing due to sharp edges on machinery;
non-conformance with national building codes;
fire in the building.
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17. 5. Safety requirements and/or protective measures
Basically in accordance to EN 115-1
5 Safety requirements and/or protective measures
5.1 General
5.2 Supporting structure (truss) and enclosure
General
Fire hazard
5.3 Steps, pallets and belt
5.4 Drive units
Driving machine
Braking system
5.5 Balustrade
General
Dimension of balustrades
Skirting
5.6 Handrail system
Handrail speed monitoring
Profile and position
Handrail entry
5.7 Landings
5.8 Machinery spaces, driving stations and return stations
5.9 Fire protection
5.10 (kept free)
5.11 Electric installations and appliances
General
Main switches
Protection against electrostatic loading
5.12 Protection against electric faults - controls
Stopping
Inspection control
5.13 Building interfaces
Free space for users
Machinery spaces outside the truss
Electric power supply
5.14 Safety signs for the user
5.15 Use of shopping trolleys and baggage carts
Escalator
Moving walk
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18. 6. Verification of improvement measures
Before putting an escalator or moving walk back into service after major modifications it shall be subject to examinations and tests in accordance with national regulations
Schindler: use of site acceptance protocol
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19. Information for use
Relating to a specific modification made to the unit, documentation related to use, maintenance, inspection and periodic checks shall be provided for those components which are modified or added as far as the safety of workers and users is affected
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20. Identification and evaluation of hazardous situations
By risk analysis
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21. The risk analysis Classification of priority levels
upgrading all existing units to the state-of-the-art for safety at the same time may not be possible
subdivision of the hazardous situations in priority levels which then can be removed in several timed steps
The safety levels of the risk profile according to ISO/TS have been used for classifying the priority levels
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