Accessibility To Lifts For Persons, Including Persons With Disability

CEN TC 10 (Lifts, escalators and moving walks)
EN 81-70
Accessibility to lifts for persons,

including persons with disability
Agoria - 20th March, 2012 , with thanks to CEN TC 10
CEN Standards
Accessibility to lifts
60 million Europeans with disabilities and

120 million who have mobility difficulties
Aging population
Rapid urbanization in many regions of the world
Growing need for providing accessibility to all
buildings
Lifts have an important role

Accessibility is a priority for the Lift Industry
Standards describe common requirements for accessibility and play an
important in dissemination of those requirements into all markets
General
European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks
EN 81-70
Status
Harmonized standard addressing Essential Health and Safety

Requirements of the Lifts Directive, related to accessibility
Developed by CEN/TC 10/WG7

Published by CEN: May 2003
Published as National Standards in all European Countries: 2003
Harmonized under the Lifts Directive: 6th August 2005
General
EN 81-70
Objectives
Harmonize the requirements in Europe
Incorporates requirements of National standards existed previously
The accessibility provisions are most effective when they are the same
everywhere
One has to learn about the accessibility provisions only once
Encounter the same provisions everywhere as used to at home
Make lifts accessible to all users, especially for people with disabilities
General
Everyone experiences one or more forms of disability in the course of life
Consider aging population
Allow the use of all lifts by disabled persons without use of a particular
device or assistant
Minimize the barriers due to peoples disabilities, without constrain for

others
EN 81-70
Objectives
Rapid implementation of the standard everywhere in Europe
Use the best available technologies to formulate the requirements
Avoid technological barriers in order to facilitate rapid alignment of all lifts
Update the standard regularly
General
User experience and technological progress brings new requirements and

possibilities
CEN/TC 10 actively collecting input from the users of the standard
EN 81-70
Objectives
Add the accessibility requirements to the main safety standards for

lifts, whenever possible
General
All lifts to comply with the basic accessibility requirements
For example, door impact protection and stopping accuracy are being
added to the EN81-1/2
EN 81-70
Background
The project to develop EN 81-70 was agreed in mid 1990s

Standard to be developed with participation and under the leadership
of the representatives of the disability organizations
CEN/TC 10/WG7 was formed
With direct and active participation of the disability related
organizations from several countries
General
Members themselves were experiencing disabilities
EN 81-70
Background
Contribution of Disability Related Organization

Members
Country
Organization
Bas Treffers
Netherlands
Vice-president of the European Disability Forum
Cleon Angelo
Belgium
National association for the Housing of

Handicapped, ANLH
Susanne Berg
Sweden
Independent Living Institute
Maarten van Ditmarsch
Netherlands
Dutch Federation of Disabled People
Ole Henriksen
Denmark
Federation of Disabled People
Maija Knkkl
Finland
National Association of the Disabled
Lothar Marx
Germany
Architect: specialized in accessibility
Anne-Sophie Parent
Belgium
Autisme-Europe
Dieter P Philippen
Germany
Institute T.L.ReY., Rehabilitation Research and

Development
Chairman of the CEN/TC

10/WG7
General
EN 81-70
Background
Several experts from lift manufacturers and Notified Bodies joined the
working group
Together with lift manufacturers and Notified Bodies, the working

group with 18 members represented 11 countries:
Belgium
France
Norway
Switzerland
Denmark
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
Finland
Netherlands
Sweden
The working group was chaired by the late Mr. Bas Treffers, the Vicepresident of the European Disability Forum
General
EN 81-70
Background
Composition of the group has lead to mutual understandings of needs

and technical feasibility
The approach has been successful in developing a standard that was
approved with high confidence and quickly adopted by many countries
in Europe
Many countries outside Europe, especially Asia, are also interested to
use EN 81-70
Similar requirements are also adopted in ISO 4190-5 standard
General
EN 81-70
Future Development
CEN has already received several interpretations and improvement

requests from the users
Several basic requirements of EN 81-70 are being incorporated into
the EN 81-1/2
EN 81-70 is being considered for revision > Will start by end 2012.
A working group will be formed, with wide participation and leadership
of disability organizations representatives
General
CEN/TS 81-82
Improving of the accessibility of existing lifts
Each year 120,000 new lifts are installed in Europe

There are more than 4.5 Million existing lifts
More than half of the existing lifts are more than 30 years old
Not in compliance with current accessorily requirements
2% of all existing lifts are modernized every year
It takes 50 years before all lifts are modernized
Accessibility of existing lifts needs specific attention

CEN/TS 81-82 provides guidelines for evaluation and methods of
improving the accessibility of existing lifts
General
CEN/TS 81-82
Improving of the accessibility of existing lifts
It is based on EN 81-70 requirements

Contains a check list to evaluate the accessibility of the existing lift by
verifying on each item: from minimum door opening to the car push
buttons or audible signals
Determines the effectiveness of the corrective action considering each
impairment: mobility, equilibrium, dexterity, vision, hearing, speech and
learning difficulty
CEN/TS 81-82 was published in 2008 and will become an EN 81-82 in
the current of 2012.
Additionally, the lift industry together with EDF* and AGE** has
developed a guideline for evaluation of accessibility to buildings
* EDF: European Disability Forum
** AGE: The European Older Peoples Platform
General
EN 81-70
Summary of Technical Requirements
Agoria , 20th March 2012
EN 81-70
Risk analysis has been made to evaluate significant hazards and

barriers for accessibility
Disabilities considered
General
EN 81-70
Examples of the provisions

Dimensions of the car and door
Protection requirements
Moving door con-contact protection
Stopping accuracy
Characteristics, types and position of
General
Handrail
Push button devices and signalisation
EN 81-70
Dimensions of the car

450 Kg
Accessibility
L = 1000
- Manual wheelchair
P = 1250
- Electric wheelchair class A*
PL >= 800
630 Kg
Accessibility
L = 1100
- Manual wheelchair
P = 1400
- Electric wheelchair class A or B*
PL >= 900
1275 Kg
PL
Accessibility
L = 2000
- Manual wheelchair
P = 1400
- Electric wheelchair class A, B or C*
PL >= 1100
* Classes according to EN 12184
General
Automatic horizontal sliding car doors and landing doors

EN 81-70
Protection requirements
Detector is a non-contact sensor avoiding impact
with the leading door panel during the closing
Stopping accuracy
10mm
Leveling accuracy
General
20mm
EN 81-70
Handrail
At least on one side wall of the car
Cross-sectional dimensions between 30-45
mm with a minimum radius of 10 mm.
The free space between the wall and the

gripping minimum 35 mm
The height of the top edge of the gripping part
900 25 mm from the car floor
Example
Interrupted where the car operating panel is

located on the same wall
The projecting ends of handrails shall be
closed and turned towards the wall
General
EN 81-70
Buttons
Operating force
Call registration
- visible
2,5 5N
- audible
35 65dbA
Contrast
General
EN 81-70
Buttons
Min. area
Marking:
contrasted
Min. 15mm
Max. 40mm
- on the left 10 - 15mm
- or on the button
490 mm
relief 0,8mm
engraving
forbidden
minimum side :
20 mm
General
EN 81-70
Landing control station

40
mini
140
maxi
2500
mini
1800
General
mini
500
maxi
1100
mini
900
EN 81-70
Car operating panel

a
8
a
7
contrast
6
5
a = distance between
active parts
Min. 10 mm
3
Main Floor
or green in relief
5 mm
reopening
door
General
2
1
Min.
20 30
%
alarm
EN 81-70
Car control station signalisation
30 60
35 65dbA
1600
1800
Alarm device EN81-28 :

- vocal communication
- feedback information
Min.
400
General
EN 81-70
Other devices
Keypad
Example of
arrangement of one
row of push buttons
General
Thank you !
Philippe Casteleyn

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CEN TC 10 (Lifts, escalators and moving walks)

Accessibility to lifts for persons,

Agoria - 20th March, 2012 , with thanks to CEN TC 10

60 million Europeans with disabilities and

Lifts have an important role

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Harmonized standard addressing Essential Health and Safety

Developed by CEN/TC 10/WG7

Harmonized under the Lifts Directive: 6th August 2005

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Harmonize the requirements in Europe

Incorporates requirements of National standards existed previously

One has to learn about the accessibility provisions only once

Encounter the same provisions everywhere as used to at home

Everyone experiences one or more forms of disability in the course of life

Consider aging population

Minimize the barriers due to peoples disabilities, without constrain for

Rapid implementation of the standard everywhere in Europe

Use the best available technologies to formulate the requirements

Avoid technological barriers in order to facilitate rapid alignment of all lifts

Update the standard regularly

User experience and technological progress brings new requirements and

CEN/TC 10 actively collecting input from the users of the standard

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Add the accessibility requirements to the main safety standards for

All lifts to comply with the basic accessibility requirements

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

The project to develop EN 81-70 was agreed in mid 1990s

Members themselves were experiencing disabilities

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Contribution of Disability Related Organization

Vice-president of the European Disability Forum

National association for the Housing of

Independent Living Institute

Maarten van Ditmarsch

Dutch Federation of Disabled People

Federation of Disabled People

National Association of the Disabled

Architect: specialized in accessibility

Institute T.L.ReY., Rehabilitation Research and

Chairman of the CEN/TC

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Together with lift manufacturers and Notified Bodies, the working

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Composition of the group has lead to mutual understandings of needs

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

CEN has already received several interpretations and improvement

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Each year 120,000 new lifts are installed in Europe

Not in compliance with current accessorily requirements

2% of all existing lifts are modernized every year

It takes 50 years before all lifts are modernized

Accessibility of existing lifts needs specific attention

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

It is based on EN 81-70 requirements

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

CEN TC 10 (Lifts, escalators and moving walks)

Agoria , 20th March 2012

Risk analysis has been made to evaluate significant hazards and

European Standardization for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks

Examples of the provisions

Moving door con-contact protection