Machine and pulley rooms

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A2. Machine and pulley rooms

A2.1. General

A2. 1.1. Normally machines, their control gear and pulleys

should be accessible only to maintenance personnel.

A2. 1.2. Machines, their control gear and pulleys should be

in special rooms.

Exceptions

However, in the case of lifts in industrial establishments,

machines, their control gear and pulleys may be located in rooms that

are also used for other purposes and are in parts of the building

accessible only to personnel of the establishment. In that case

machines, their control gear and pulleys should be separated from the

remaining part of those rooms by:

(a covers locked by key; or

(b) enclosures with access doors locked by key.

There need be no floor under the pulleys; in that case the top

of the well is to be regarded as constituting a pulley room.

A2.1.3. (1) In no circumstances should machine and pulley

rooms be used for purposes other than those relating to lifts: they

should contain no tubing or other parts that are not connected with

the maintenance and operation of lifts. (It is permissible for these

rooms to contain equipment for their own heating.)

(2) The same requirements should apply to the covers and

enclosures mentioned in A2.1.2 (1).

A2.1.4. A machine room should preferably be above the well.

A2.2. Accessibility

A2.2.1. Access from the street to the interior of the premises

housing the machines, their control gear or the pulleys should be

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