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ASME A17.1 Document Information:
Title
Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators Includes Requirements for Elevators, Escalators, Dumbwaiters, Moving Walks, Material Lifts, and Dumbwaiters With Automatic Transfer Devices
ASME International
Publication Date:
Jan 1, 2007
Scope:
Equipment Covered by this Code
This Code covers the design, construction, operation,
inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the
following equipment and its associated parts, rooms, spaces, and
hoistways, where located in or adjacent to a building or structure
(see 1.2):
(a) hoisting and lowering mechanisms, equipped with a
car, that move between two or more landings. This equipment
includes, but is not limited to elevators (see 1.3).
(b) power-driven stairways and walkways for carrying
persons between landings. This equipment includes, but is not
limited to escalators and moving walks (see 1.3).
(c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a
car that serves two or more landings and is restricted to the
carrying of material by its limited size or limited access to the
car. This equipment includes, but is not limited to dumbwaiters and
material lifts (see 1.3).
Equipment Not Covered by this Code
Equipment not covered by this Code includes, but is not limited
to, the following:
(a) personnel hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.4 and
CSA-Z185
(b) material hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.5 and
CSA-Z256
(c) platform lifts and stairway chairlifts within the
scope of ASME A18.1, CSA B355, and CSA B613
(d) manlifts within the scope of ASME A90.1 and CSA
B311, and in jurisdictions enforcing NBCC Special Purpose Personnel
Elevators (ASME A17.1, Section 5.7)
(e) mobile scaffolds and towers; platforms within the
scope of ANSI/SIA A92 and CSA-B354
(f) powered platform and equipment for exterior and
interior building maintenance within the scope of ASME A120.1 and
CSA-Z271
(g) conveyors and related equipment within the scope of
ASME B20.1
(h) cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings
within the scope of ASME B30, CSA Z150, CSA B167, CSA Z202, and CSA
Z248
(i) industrial trucks within the scope of ASME B56 and
CSA B335
(j) portable equipment, except for portable escalators,
that are covered by 6.1
(k) tiering or piling machines used to move material to
and from storage located and operating entirely within one
story
(l) equipment for feeding or positioning material at
machine tools, printing presses, etc.
(m) skip or furnace hoists
(n) wharf ramps
(o) amusement devices
(p) stage and orchestra lifts
(q) lift bridges
(r) railroad car lifts and dumpers
(s) mechanized parking garage equipment
(t) line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving platforms,
and similar equipment used for installing an elevator
(u) platform elevators installed in a ship or offshore
drilling rig and used for the purpose of loading and unloading
cargo, equipment, and personnel
(v) dock levelers (freight platform lifts) having a
rise of 500 mm (20 in.) or less
(w) in Canadian jurisdictions, devices having a rise of
2 000 mm (79 in.) or less and used only for the transfer of
materials or equipment
(x) in jurisdictions enforcing NBCC, mine elevators
within the scope of 5.9
Application of Parts
This Code applies to new installations only, except Part 1, and
5.10, 8.1, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, and 8.11, that apply to both
new and existing installations.
Effective Date
The requirements of this edition and subsequent addenda to the
Code are effective as of the date noted on the copyright page of
this document. The authority having jurisdiction will establish the
effective date for their local regulations.
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