prEN 81-43

Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Part 43: Lifts for cranes

1.1   This document specifies the safety requirements for the construction and installation of power operated lifts attached to cranes and intended for access to workplaces on cranes, by authorised persons. This includes intended use, erection, dismantling, inspection and maintenance. The lift serves defined landing levels and has a load carrying unit which is:
-   designed for the transportation of persons and goods;
-   guided;
-   travelling vertically or along a path within 15 degrees maximum from the vertical;
-   supported by rack and pinion or suspended by steel wire ropes;
-   travelling with a speed not more than 1,0 m/s for permanent lifts and not more than 0,4 m/s for temporary lifts.
1.2   This document identifies hazards as listed in Clause 4 which arise during the various phases in the life of such equipment and describes methods for the elimination or reduction of these hazards when used as intended by the manufacturer.
1.3   This document does not specify the additional requirements for:
-   operation in severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, strong magnetic fields);-
-   lightning protection;
-   operation subject to special rules (e.g. potentially explosive atmospheres);
NOTE   Directive 94/9/EC concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres can be applicable to the type of machine or equipment covered by this European Standard. The present standard is not intended to provide means of complying with the essential health and safety requirements of Directive 94/9/EC.
-   electromagnetic compatibility (emission, immunity);
-   handling of loads the nature of which could lead to dangerous situations;
-   the use of combustion engines;
-   hydraulic drive units;
-   hazards occurring during manufacturing process;
-   hazards occurring as a result of being erected over a public road;
-   earthquakes;
-   noise (see also Directive on noise emissions from machines used outdoors (2000/14/EC)).

Sicherheitsregeln für die Konstruktion und Installation von Aufzügen - Besondere Aufzüge für den Transport von Personen und Gütern - Teil 43: Kranführeraufzüge

Règles de sécurité pour la construction et l'installation des élévateurs - Élévateurs particuliers destinés au transport des personnes et des matériaux - Partie 43: Élévateurs pour appareils de levage à charge suspendue

Varnostna pravila za konstruiranje in vgradnjo dvigal (liftov) - Posebna dvigala za prevoz oseb in blaga - 43. del: Dvigala za žerjave

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Publication Date: 22-Nov-2023
• ICS: 53.020.20 - Cranes
• ICS: 91.140.90 - Lifts. Escalators
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 10 - Passenger, goods and service lifts
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 10/SC 1/WG 3 - Special purpose lifts for crane
• Current Stage: 4599 - Dispatch of FV draft to CMC - Finalization for Vote
• Start Date: 06-Jun-2023
• Due Date: 14-Feb-2022
• Completion Date: 06-Jun-2023
• Directive: 2006/42/EC - Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)
• Mandate: M/008 - Standardization mandate given to CEN concerning machinery presenting hazards due to the lifting or moving of persons
• Mandate: M/396 - Mandate to CEN and Cenelec for standardisation in the field of machinery
• Ref Project: oSIST prEN 81-43:2021 - Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Part 43: Lifts for cranes

Relations

• Revises: EN 81-43:2009 - Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Part 43: Lifts for cranes
• Effective Date: 18-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN 81-43:2021
01-november-2021

Varnostna pravila za konstruiranje in vgradnjo dvigal (liftov) - Posebna dvigala za

prevoz oseb in blaga - 43. del: Dvigala za žerjave

Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Special lifts for the transport of

persons and goods - Part 43: Lifts for cranes
Sicherheitsregeln für die Konstruktion und Installation von Aufzügen - Besondere
Aufzüge für den Transport von Personen und Gütern - Teil 43: Kranführeraufzüge

Règles de sécurité pour la construction et l'installation des élévateurs - Élévateurs

particuliers destinés au transport des personnes et des matériaux - Partie 43: Élévateurs

pour appareils de levage à charge suspendue
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 81-43
ICS:
53.020.20 Dvigala Cranes
91.140.90 Dvigala. Tekoče stopnice Lifts. Escalators
oSIST prEN 81-43:2021 en,fr,de

2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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DRAFT
EUROPEAN STANDARD
prEN 81-43
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
September 2021
ICS 53.020.20; 91.140.90 Will supersede EN 81-43:2009
English Version
Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts -
Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Part
43: Lifts for cranes

Règles de sécurité pour la construction et l'installation Sicherheitsregeln für die Konstruktion und Installation

des élévateurs - Élévateurs particuliers destinés au von Aufzügen - Besondere Aufzüge für den Transport

transport des personnes et des matériaux - Partie 43: von Personen und Gütern - Teil 43: Kranführeraufzüge

Élévateurs pour appareils de levage à charge
suspendue

This draft European Standard is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee

CEN/TC 10.

If this draft becomes a European Standard, CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations

which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

This draft European Standard was established by CEN in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other

language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC

Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,

Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,

Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and

United Kingdom.

Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are

aware and to provide supporting documentation.

Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without

notice and shall not be referred to as a European Standard.
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Contents
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European foreword ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 6

1 Scope .......................................................................................................................................................... 7

2 Normative references .......................................................................................................................... 8

3 Terms and definitions ....................................................................................................................... 10

4 List of significant hazards ................................................................................................................ 13

5 Safety requirements and/or protective measures ................................................................. 16

5.1 General.................................................................................................................................................... 16

5.2 Load combinations and calculations ........................................................................................... 16

5.2.3 Proof of static strength ..................................................................................................................... 23

5.2.4 Fatigue stress analysis of drive and braking system components .................................... 23

5.3 Base frame ............................................................................................................................................. 23

5.4 Mast, ties and buffers ......................................................................................................................... 24

5.4.1 Guide rails and masts ........................................................................................................................ 24

5.4.2 Ties for mast and guide rails .......................................................................................................... 24

5.4.3 Buffers ..................................................................................................................................................... 24

5.5 Liftway protection and landing access ........................................................................................ 25

5.5.1 General.................................................................................................................................................... 25

5.5.2 Liftway protection .............................................................................................................................. 25

5.5.3 Landing access ..................................................................................................................................... 27

5.5.4 Materials for enclosure and guarding ......................................................................................... 32

5.5.5 Landing gate locking devices .......................................................................................................... 32

5.5.6 Clearances ............................................................................................................................................. 34

5.5.7 Lighting ................................................................................................................................................... 34

5.6 Car ............................................................................................................................................................ 35

5.6.1 General requirements ....................................................................................................................... 35

5.6.2 Overspeed safety device against falling of the car .................................................................. 37

5.6.3 Overload detection device ............................................................................................................... 38

5.7 Drive unit ............................................................................................................................................... 39

5.7.1 General provisions ............................................................................................................................. 39

5.7.2 Protection and accessibility ............................................................................................................ 39

5.7.3 Suspension system ............................................................................................................................. 40

5.7.4 Braking system .................................................................................................................................... 46

5.8 Electric installations and appliances ........................................................................................... 46

5.8.1 General.................................................................................................................................................... 46

5.8.2 Protection against electric faults .................................................................................................. 47

5.8.3 Protection against the effects of external influences ............................................................. 47

5.8.4 Electric wiring ...................................................................................................................................... 47

5.8.5 Contactors, relay-contactors ........................................................................................................... 48

5.8.6 Electric safety devices ....................................................................................................................... 48

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5.8.7 Safety contacts ..................................................................................................................................... 48

5.8.8 Safety circuits ....................................................................................................................................... 49

5.8.9 Lighting ................................................................................................................................................... 50

5.8.10 Safety functions ................................................................................................................................... 50

5.9 Control and limiting devices ........................................................................................................... 52

5.9.1 General ................................................................................................................................................... 52

5.9.2 Travel limit switches ......................................................................................................................... 52

5.9.3 Slack rope device ................................................................................................................................ 53

5.9.4 Mast detection switch ....................................................................................................................... 53

5.9.5 Erection accessories .......................................................................................................................... 53

5.9.6 Stopping devices ................................................................................................................................. 53

5.9.7 Stopping the machine ........................................................................................................................ 53

5.9.8 Drive unit fault detection device for rack and pinion system with two redundant drive

units ......................................................................................................................................................... 54

5.9.9 Control modes ...................................................................................................................................... 54

5.10 Breakdown conditions ...................................................................................................................... 55

5.10.1 Alarm device ......................................................................................................................................... 55

5.10.2 Emergency escape .............................................................................................................................. 55

5.10.3 Manual lowering device for permanent installed lifts .......................................................... 55

5.10.4 Manual lowering device for temporary installed lifts ........................................................... 55

6 Verification ........................................................................................................................................... 56

6.1 Verification of design ........................................................................................................................ 56

6.2 Special verification tests .................................................................................................................. 58

6.2.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 58

6.2.2 Locking devices for car and landing gates ................................................................................. 59

6.2.3 Overspeed safety device and overspeed governors ............................................................... 60

6.2.4 Energy accumulation type buffers with buffered return movement and energy

dissipation type buffers .................................................................................................................... 62

6.2.5 Pressure-sensitive protective device .......................................................................................... 62

6.3 Verification tests on each lift before first use .......................................................................... 62

7 User information ................................................................................................................................. 62

7.1 Instruction handbook ....................................................................................................................... 62

7.1.1 Comprehensive information........................................................................................................... 62

7.1.2 Contents of the instruction handbook ........................................................................................ 63

7.2 Markings ................................................................................................................................................ 68

7.2.1 General ................................................................................................................................................... 68

7.2.2 Identification plate within the car ................................................................................................ 68

7.2.3 Mast or guide section identification ............................................................................................ 68

7.2.4 Basic user information sign ............................................................................................................ 68

7.2.5 Warning sign at ground level ......................................................................................................... 69

7.2.6 Type plate at overspeed safety device ........................................................................................ 69

7.2.7 Drive motor label ................................................................................................................................ 69

7.2.8 Marking of control elements .......................................................................................................... 69

Annex A (informative) Identification of suclauses dealing with specific requirements for

temporary installed lifts/permanent installed lifts ............................................................... 70

A.1 General ................................................................................................................................................... 70

Annex B (normative) Requirements for the installation of lifts (for cranes) on tower

cranes ...................................................................................................................................................... 72

B.1 General ................................................................................................................................................... 72

B.2 Safety requirements and/or protective measures ................................................................. 73

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B.2.1 Requirements for the access ........................................................................................................... 73

B.2.2 Requirements for the mast ties and base frame to connect the lift to the tower

crane ........................................................................................................................................................ 73

B.2.3 Requirements for the combination of the crane and the lift ............................................... 73

B.3 Information exchanged between manufacturers.................................................................... 73

B.3.1 General.................................................................................................................................................... 73

B.3.2 Information provided by the crane manufacturer to the lift manufacturer ................. 73

B.3.3 Information provided by the crane manufacturer to the lift landing platform

manufacturer........................................................................................................................................ 74

B.3.4 Information provided by the lift manufacturer for the lift landing platform

manufacturer........................................................................................................................................ 74

B.3.5 Information provided by the lift landing platform manufacturer to the tower crane

manufacturer........................................................................................................................................ 74

B.3.6 Information provided by the lift manufacturer to the tower crane manufacturer .... 74

Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European Standard and essential

Requirements of EU Directive 2006/42/EC aimed to be covered ..................................... 75

Bibliography ....................................................................................................................................................... 80

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European foreword

This document (prEN 81-43:2021) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 10 “Lifts,

escalators and moving walks”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.
This document is currently submitted to the CEN Enquiry.
This document will supersede EN 81-43:2009.
The main modification are:

— Revision of requirements for design/calculation (5.2) and integration of requirements for

earthquakes;

— design requirement to introduce the reference to EN 13001-1 and EN 13001-2 for the calculation have

been revised and requirements for earthquakes have been added;
— Performance level in accordance with EN ISO 13849-1 have been added;

— A new Annex A (informative) identifying the specific requirements for temporary installed

lifts/permanent installed lifts has been added;
— A new Annex B (normative) for lifts installed on tower cranes have been added.

This document has been prepared under a Standardization Request given to CEN by the European

Commission and the European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU

Directive(s) / Regulation(s).

For relationship with EU Directive(s) / Regulation(s), see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part

of this document.
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Introduction

This document is one of a series of standards produced by CEN/TC 10/SC 1 as part of the CEN programme

of work to produce machinery safety standards.
This document is a Type C standard as stated in EN ISO 12100:2010.

This document is of relevance, in particular, for the following stakeholder groups representing the market

players with regard to machinery safety:
— machine manufacturers (small, medium and large enterprises);

— health and safety bodies (regulators, accident prevention organizations, market surveillance, etc.).

Others can be affected by the level of machinery safety achieved with the means of the document by the

above-mentioned stakeholder groups:
— machine users/employers (small, medium and large enterprises);

— machine users/employees (e.g. trade unions, organizations for people with special needs);

— service providers, e.g. for maintenance (small, medium and large enterprises);
— consumers (in case of machinery intended for use by consumers).

The above-mentioned stakeholder groups have been given the possibility to participate at the drafting

process of this document.

The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events

are covered are indicated in the scope of this standard.
This document gives details for the complete installation.

In order to achieve a safe installation of a lift on a crane, negotiations shall take place between the crane

user organization and the manufacturer of the lift and the manufacturer of the crane, about the interfaces

(e.g. lift way protection, supporting structure, power supplies, suitability of alarm devices, …) regarding

the responsibility for these requirements. For installation of a lift on a tower crane, see Annex B

(normative).

When provisions of this type C standard are different from those which are stated in type A or B

standards, the provisions of this type C standard take precedence over the provisions of the other

standards, for machines that have been designed and built according to the provisions of this type C

standard.
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1 Scope

1.1 This document specifies the safety requirements for the construction and installation of power

operated lifts attached to cranes and intended for access to workplaces on cranes, by authorized persons.

This includes intended use, erection, dismantling, inspection and maintenance. The lift serves defined

landing levels and has a load carrying unit which is:
a) designed for the transportation of persons and materials;
b) guided;

c) travelling vertically or along a path within 15 degrees maximum from the vertical;

d) supported by rack and pinion or suspended by steel wire ropes;

e) travelling with a speed not more than 1,0 m/s for permanent installed lifts and not more than 0,4 m/s

for temporary installed lifts.

NOTE Annex A identifies the specific requirements applicable to the permanent installed lifts, respectively to

the temporary installed lifts.

1.2 This document identifies hazards as listed in Clause 4 that arise during the various phases in the

life of such equipment and describes methods for the elimination or reduction of these hazards when

used as intended by the manufacturer.
1.3 This document does not specify the additional requirements for:

a) operation in severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, strong magnetic fields);

b) noise;
c) operation subject to special rules (e.g. potentially explosive atmospheres);

NOTE Directive 2014/34/EU concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially

explosive atmospheres can be applicable to the type of machine or equipment covered by this document. The

present standard is not intended to provide means of complying with the essential health and safety

requirements of Directive 2014/34/EU.
d) electromagnetic compatibility (emission, immunity);
e) handling of loads the nature of which could lead to dangerous situations;
f) the use of combustion engines;
g) hydraulic drive units;
h) hazards occurring during manufacturing process;
1.4 This document is not applicable to:

a) builders hoists according to EN 12158-1:2000+A1:2010, EN 12158-2:2000+A1:2010 and

EN 12159:2012 and transport platform according to EN 16719:2018;
b) elevating control stations according to EN 14502-2:2005+A1:2008;
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c) lifts according to EN 81-20:2014 and EN 81-50:2014;
d) work platforms carried on the forks of fork trucks;
e) work platforms;
f) funiculars;
g) lifts specially designed for military purposes;
h) mine lifts;
i) theatre elevators.

1.5 This document deals with the complete lift design but excludes the design of the crane. It includes

the base frame and base enclosure of the lift but excludes the design of any concrete, hard core, timber or

other foundation arrangement. It includes the design of mast ties and the design of anchorage parts

between the mast tie and the crane structure. This document also includes the design of the landing gates

and their fixings.

1.6 This document also deals with the information to be exchanged between the manufacturer of the

lift and the crane user organization or the manufacturer of the crane.
2 Normative references

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content

constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For

undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

EN 81-20:2014, Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Lifts for the transport of persons

and goods — Part 20: Passenger and goods passenger lifts

EN 81-50:2014, Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Examinations and tests — Part

50: Design rules, calculations, examinations and tests of lift components

EN 894-1:1997+A1:2008, Safety of machinery - Ergonomics requirements for the design of displays and

control actuators - Part 1: General principles for human interactions with displays and control actuators

EN ISO 14118:2018, Safety of machinery - Prevention of unexpected start-up (ISO 14118:2017)

EN 1808:2015, Safety requirements on suspended access equipment — Design calculations, stability

criteria, construction — Tests

EN 1998-1:2004, Eurocode 8: Design of structures for earthquake resistance - Part 1: General rules, seismic

actions and rules for buildings

EN 1999-1-1:2007, Eurocode 9: Design of aluminium structures - Part 1-1: General structural rules

EN 12159:2012, Builders hoists for persons and materials with vertically guided cages

EN 13001-2:2014, Cranes — General design — Part 2: Load actions

EN 13001-3-1:2012+A2:2018, Cranes — General design — Part 3-1: Limit states and proof of competence

of steel structures
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EN 13586:2004+A1:2008, Cranes — Access
EN 14439:2006+A2:2009, Cranes - Safety - Tower cranes

EN 60204-32:2008, Safety of machinery - Electrical equipment of machines - Part 32: Requirements for

hoisting machines

EN 60529:1991, Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP-Code) (IEC 60529:1991)

EN IEC 60947-4-1:2019, Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear — Part 4-1: Contactors and motor-

starters — Electromechanical contactors and motor-starters (IEC 60947-4-1:2000)

EN 60947-5-1:2017, Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear - Part 5-1: Control circuit devices and

switching elements - Electromechanical control circuit devices

EN ISO 12100:2010, Safety of machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction

(ISO 12100:2010)

EN ISO 13849-1:2015, Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of control systems - Part 1: General

principles for design (ISO 13849-1:2015)

EN ISO 13854:2019, Safety of machinery - Minimum gaps to avoid crushing of parts of the human body (ISO

13854:2017)

EN ISO 13856-3:2013, Safety of machinery - Pressure-sensitive protective devices - Part 3: General

principles for design and testing of pressure-sensitive bumpers, plates, wires and similar devices (ISO 13856-

3:2013)

EN ISO 13857:2019, Safety of machinery — Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by

upper and lower limbs (ISO 13857:2008)

EN ISO 14119:2013, Safety of machinery - Interlocking devices associated with guards - Principles for

design and selection (ISO 14119:2013)

EN ISO 14120:2015, Safety of machinery - Guards - General requirements for the design and construction

of fixed and movable guards (ISO 14120:2015)

ISO 3864-1:2011, Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs — Part 1: Design principles for safety

signs in workplaces and public areas

ISO 4309:2017, Cranes — Wire ropes — Care and maintenance, inspection and discard

ISO 6336-1:2019, Calculation of load capacity of spur and helical gears — Part 1: Basic principles,

introduction and general influence factors
ISO 6336-2:2019, Calculation of load capacity of spur an
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