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Q) to carry out periodically, in his own interests, in addition to those examinations and tests entrust to the maintenance
organization, the following:
- A full ascent and descent to assess any changes in the quality of the ride or damage to the equipment.
- Typical items to be checked to ensure that they are in place, undamaged and functioning correctly are:
- landing doors and bottom door tracks
- stopping accuracy
- indicators that are not located in a reserved area
- landing push controls, car push controls, door open controls
- two-way means of communication in the car which provides permanent contact with a rescue service
- normal car lighting
- door reversal device
- safety signs/pictograms.
Informations to the
owner for the rescue operations
It is necessary for the owner that the persons authorized to rescue persons trapped:
A) Are instructed by the maintenance organization or by a competent third party in accordance with the instructions
provided.
B) Receive an appropriate instruction for the specific system and updated with the instructions provided;
C) Know that they can evacuate passengers only through the landing doors;
D) Call the maintenance organization when they are unable to move the cabin with the emergency device Know the
conditions for which only the maintenance organization has to perform rescue operations.
Information for the maintenance organization
It’s necessary for the maintenance organization :
A) to carry out the work of maintenance in conformity with the maintenance instructions and based on systematic
maintenance checks.
- After these checks, the maintenance organization shall decide in conformity with the maintenance instructions what
is required to be done
- A list of typical examples of maintenance checks to maintain the installation is shown in annex A.
B) to update the original maintenance instructions if the installation changes its intended use and/or the environmental
conditions existing on the completion of the installation.
NOTE
The maintenance organization should be provided by the owner of the installation with the relevant maintenance
instructions where modifications are carried out on the installation.
C) to ensure that a risk assessment for any working area and for any maintenance operation has been carried out
taking into account the installer's maintenance instructions and all information supplied by the owner of the
installation.
D) to inform the owner of the installation about any work to be carried out as a consequence of a risk assessment
especially for the access and/or the environment related to the building/installation.
E) to carry out a maintenance plan so that preventive maintenance is suitable for the installation and maintenance time
is as short as reasonably practicable, without reducing the safety of persons, in order to minimize the non-
operational time of the installation.
F) to adapt the plan for maintenance so as to take account of any predictable failures, e.g., those due to misuse,
mishandling, deterioration, etc.
G) to carry out maintenance operations by competent maintenance persons and provided with the necessary tools and
equipment.
H) to maintain the competency of maintenance persons.
I) to carry out the maintenance periodically.
J) to provide a 24 hour, all year-round call-out service for rescue of persons
K) to keep records of the result of each intervention due to a failure of the installation.
L) These records shall include the type of failures in order to detect any repetition. They shall be available to the owner
of the installation on request.
M) to be organized to provide the necessary spare parts for any repair
N) to ensure the attendance of a competent maintenance person, given reasonable notice, for any inspection carried
out by an authorized third party or for building maintenance works to be carried out in the areas reserved for the
maintenance organization.
O) to inform in due time the owner of the installation about necessary progressive upgrading of the installation.
P) to organize rescue operations, even with subcontractor, and to make provision for circumstances such as fire, panic,
etc.
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