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2018.08.20
Safety problems with older elevators with car gates and swing doors
The Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning has published a letter (2018-07-04) on its website describing the problem and the risks that exist with the existing technical solution for primarily older elevators with shaft doors and a folding gate in the car opening. The Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning urges all property owners to make an inventory and assess whether the described design is present in their own elevator stock. If the elevators have a technical design that has been shown to have an increased risk of personal injury, the property owner should take a safety-enhancing technical measure to reduce the risk as much as possible. Which technical measures should be taken on the individual elevator to increase safety should be decided in consultation with the manufacturer or maintenance company for the elevator.
It is important to point out that the lifts meet the structural safety requirements that applied when they were put into operation and that the information from the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Urban Development is not a retroactive legal requirement. The accredited inspection bodies are not mandated to have constructive opinions during recurring inspections and will therefore not report deficiencies in the technical design.
It neither deprives nor in any way prevents an owner of an elevator installation from increasing the safety of his elevator.
Swetic's members undertake to do as the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning writes in its information, to write a note on the elevators that have the technical solution that has been shown to have an increased risk of personal injury.
A notice does not generate a ban on use but is information to the owner of the elevator. The owner of an elevator installation is responsible for the safety of his elevators at all times.
The Swedish Board of Housing, Building and Planning's letter is reproduced below in its entirety:
Safety problems with older elevators with car gates and swing doors
