New Standard for Elevator Inspection

September 11^th,reporter of Chongqing Morning News informed from the Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau that "Home elevator inspection rules", "elevator repair classification and inspection rules" has passed the expert group review, entered the final approval stage.　

These two standards will be more standardized elevator inspection process, to ensure the safety of the public.

"Home elevator inspection rules" will be the first national standard for household elevator inspection."Elevator repair classification and inspection rules" is to further regulate the elevator renovation, major repairs ,maintenance and other operations.It will provide reliable technical basis for the supervision and inspection of special equipment inspection and testing institutions.

Home elevator

"Home elevator inspection rules" is drafted by the Chongqing Special Equipment Institute.So why do you want to develop a standard for the home elevator?Expert from Chongqing Special Equipment Institute explained for us.With the rapid economic development, people living conditions are getting better and better.Some people moved into houses, villas and other high-floor  residential, so does home lift came into being.

At present, the methods of inspection of home elevator is Commission inspection and mainly just for the installation and acceptance.The relevant national standard of domestic elevator only provides the technical requirements for the design, manufacture, installation and other aspects of the domestic elevator, but does not involve the corresponding testing methods.

Cause the lack of corresponding inspection procedures,home elevator acceptance inspection in the inspection items has been determined by the user of commission or the inspection agency consultation,so that the Commission inspection of the project is too arbitrary and produced a lot of problems.

At the same time, because of the home elevator is not in the scope of the elevator compulsory inspection, some of home using elevator have not inspected onece for many years,this bring serious security risks.

"Home elevator inspection rules" will regulate the entrusted inspection household elevator in our city, inappropriate behavior constraints of related parties, improve the city's household elevator inspection quality, prevent and reduce household elevator safety accidents, ensure passenger safety.

There are at least 60 inspection items for one home elevator

"Home elevator inspection rules" clearly stipulates that the home elevator is installed in a private house,and use only for one single family members.It can also be installed in a public building with many families in ,but it can only be reserved for one specific family.

Compared with the passenger elevator used in public places, home elevator is a private property.It is specific with in the rated speed, rated load, car travel, driving mode, open the door, the use of environment, supervision and management.

The new standard provisions of the installation and inspection conditions of the household elevator, the contents and methods of inspection, inspection reports and conclusions.The inspection project is divided into below test items: technical information, computer and related equipment, wells and related equipment, car and counterweight, suspension and rotating parts, car door and landing door, additional item for machineroomless home elevator, additional item for hydraulic lift home elevator.

According to the standard requirements, a home elevator at least need to go through 60 test items.For example,There should not be any gap greater than 6 mm between the car door and the landing door . While using the glass door, requires measures to prevent children’s hand from being dragged .

At the same time, the standard requires overload protection device for home elevator. When the load go over more than 110% of the capacity,it should stop normal running, and the car need to have a warning signal.