P.U.

(A) 6/70
FACTORIES AND MACHINERY (ELECTRIC PASSENGER AND GOODS LIFT)
REGULATIONS, 1970.
PART II - DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION AND TESTS

Regulation 12. Landing doors.

(1) Every landing opening in any lift well enclosure shall be protected by a door which shall
extend the full height and width of the opening. Such landing door when fully open shall leave no
portion of the lift well unprotected at the sides of the car.

(2) The height of every landing door shall not be less than-

(a) six feet six inches in the case of a passenger lift; or

(b) six feet in the case of a goods lift.

(3) The distance between the lift well side of any landing door and the edge of the landing
threshold shall not be greater than four inches in the case of hinged doors or two and three
quarter inches in the case of sliding doors.

(4) In no case shall the distance between the lift well side of the landing door and the lift well side
of the car door or gate exceed six inches.

(5) Every landing door and its tracks shall be capable of withstanding a thrust of seventy-five
pounds applied normally at any point, excepting any vision panel, without causing permanent
deformation and without such door being sprung from its guides.

(6) Every power operated landing door on every automatically operated lift shall be so designed
that closing it is not likely to injure any person.

(7) Provision shall be made to open manually every power operated landing door, in the event of
failure of power operating mechanism, at any landing at which the car is standing.

(8) Every hinged landing door shall be provided with a vision panel. Every manual or self-closing
landing door for a lift with automatic control shall be provided with a vision panel, except at any
landing where a car position indicator is provided.

(9) Any vision panel in a landing door shall be fire resisting and of wired safety glass. The area of
any single vision panel shall not be less than twenty-five square inches and the total area of one
or more vision panels in any landing door shall not be more than eighty square inches and the
centre of the panel shall be located not less than fifty -four inches and not more than sixty-six
inches above the landing;

Provided that for vertically sliding centre opening counter balanced door it shall be located to
conform with the dimensions specified in so far as the door design will permit:

Provided further that vision panel on horizontally swinging doors shall be located for convenient
vision when opening the door from the car side.

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