ASME International

Performance-based safety code for elevators and escalators
 N A17.7

Annotation

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:

(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); and

(c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms, equipped with a car, that serve two or more landings and are restricted to the carrying of material by their limited size or limited access to the car. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, dumbwaiters and material lifts (see 1.3).

NOTE 1.1.1(b) and (c): Only elevators are covered in this edition. Other equipment is to comply with 1.2(a). Provision is made for other equipment to be covered in future editions.

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;