EN 115-2

Safety of escalators and moving walks - Part 2:

Rules for the improvement of safety of existing escalators and
moving walks
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Background
European Union
More than 75 000 escalators and moving walks are in operation
More than 50% were installed in the last century
These machines are operational at different safety levels with
different risk levels which may cause accidents.

In today's legal environment, owners and

maintenance companies must warrant a high degree
of safety for users and service technicians.
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Todays state of the art of safety

Reducing the gap with EN 115-2
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Approach of EN 115-2
Categorization of hazards and hazardous situations, each of which
has been analyzed by a risk assessment
Provision of corrective actions to
Improve, step by step, the safety of all existing units to todays state of the
art for safety
Enable each unit to be audited and safety measures to be identified and
implemented
List the high, medium and low risks and corrective actions which can be
applied in separate steps in order to mitigate (reduce) the risks

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Use of this standard

National authorities to determine their own programs of
implementation in a step by step process
Process in a reasonable and practicable way
based on the level of risk (e.g. high, medium, low) and
social and economic considerations

Owners to follow their responsibilities according to existing

regulations (e.g. Use of Work Equipment Directive)
Maintenance companies and/or inspection bodies to inform the
owners on the safety level of their installations
Owners to upgrade the existing units on a voluntary basis

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The Scope
This European Standard gives rules for improving the
safety of existing escalators and moving walks
=> Aims to reach an equivalent level of safety to that of a newly
installed escalator and moving walk by the application of
todays state of the art for safety.

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The Scope
This standard includes the improvement of safety of
existing escalators and moving walks for:
Users
Maintenance and inspection personnel
Persons outside the escalator or moving walk (but in its
immediate vicinity)
Authorized persons

This standard is not applicable to:

Safety during transport, installation, repairs and dismantling of
escalators and moving walks
Spiral escalators
Accelerating moving walks
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List of significant hazards

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List of significant hazards

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The Safety check list

acc. EN 115-2 The tool to

Identify the significant hazards on an existing escalator or moving walk

Determine which type of protective measure(s) proposed by this standard is/are applicable

Example of 5 out of 65 items:

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National implementation of EN 115-2

All technical solutions for upgrading to the state-of-theart are listed in Clause 5 of this standard
No binding requirements for measures to be carried out
on which unit and within which period of time
Subject to national legislation
The given procedures are intended to assist in setting up
national regulations

Conclusion: this standard gives examples and templates,

but they have to be introduced by national
recommendations or laws

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Backup
Not for distribution

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Legal environment
Today's state of the art of safety is based on
the European Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC,
the harmonized standard EN 115-1 (Safety of escalators
and moving walks Construction and installation) and
the standard EN 115-2 (Rules for the improvement of
safety of existing escalators and moving walks)
National laws and regulations related to work and
operation safety
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Contents of EN 115-2
1.

Scope

2.

Normative references

3.

Terms and definitions

4.

List of significant hazards

5.

Safety requirements and/or protective measures

6.

Verification of improvement measures

7.

Information for use

8.

Annex A (informative) Method for national implementation of EN 115-2

9.

Annex B (informative) Safety check list for existing escalators and moving
walks

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2. Normative references

EN 115-1:2008, Safety of escalators and moving walks Part 1:

Construction and installation
EN 13015:2001, Maintenance for lifts and escalators Rules for
maintenance instructions
EN 60204-1:2006, Safety of machinery Electrical equipment of machines
Part 1: General requirements (IEC
60204-1:2005, modified)
EN ISO 12100-1:2003, Safety of machinery Basic concepts, general
principles for design Part 1: Basic
terminology, methodology (ISO 12100-1:2003)
EN ISO 13850, Safety of machinery Emergency stop Principles for
design (ISO 13850:2006)
EN ISO 13857:2008, Safety of machinery Safety distances to prevent
hazard zones being reached by upper and
lower limbs (ISO 13857:2008)

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4. List of significant hazards

Hazards not covered in this standard
environmental conditions including e.g. earthquake and
flooding;
electromagnetic interferences;
shearing due to sharp edges on machinery;
non-conformance with national building codes;
fire in the building.

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5. Safety requirements and/or protective

measures
Basically in accordance to EN 115-1

5 Safety requirements and/or protective

measures
5.1 General
5.2 Supporting structure (truss) and enclosure
5.2.1
General
5.2.2
Fire hazard
5.3 Steps, pallets and belt
5.4 Drive units
5.4.1
Driving machine
5.4.2
Braking system
5.5 Balustrade
5.5.1
General
5.5.2
Dimension of balustrades
5.5.3
Skirting
5.6 Handrail system
5.6.1
Handrail speed monitoring
5.6.2
Profile and position
5.6.3
Handrail entry
5.7 Landings

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5.8 Machinery spaces, driving stations and return stations

5.9 Fire protection
5.10(kept free)
5.11Electric installations and appliances
5.11.1
General
5.11.2
Main switches
5.11.3
Protection against electrostatic loading
5.12Protection against electric faults - controls
5.12.1
Stopping
5.12.2
Inspection control
5.13Building interfaces
5.13.1
Free space for users
5.13.2
Machinery spaces outside the truss
5.13.3
Electric power supply
5.14Safety signs for the user
5.15Use of shopping trolleys and baggage carts
5.15.1
Escalator
5.15.2
Moving walk

6. Verification of improvement measures

Before putting an escalator or moving walk back into
service after major modifications it shall be subject to
examinations and tests in accordance with national
regulations
Schindler: use of site acceptance protocol

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Information for use

Relating to a specific modification made to the unit,
documentation related to use, maintenance, inspection
and periodic checks shall be provided for those
components which are modified or added as far as the
safety of workers and users is affected

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Identification and
evaluation of hazardous
situations
By risk analysis

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The risk analysis

Classification of priority levels

upgrading all existing units to the state-of-the-art for safety at the same time may not be
possible

subdivision of the hazardous situations in priority levels which then can be removed in
several timed steps

The safety levels of the risk profile according to ISO/TS 14798 have been used for
classifying the priority levels

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