Key Guidance for Home lifts in India
Elevators are heavy machineries that are integrated within the civil structure to transport people along a vertical direction. Since it involves regular movement of people, there has to be certain regulations that the building and the product must comply with in order to ensure safety to the people and the structure within which it is placed. Unfortunately, in India, there are no safety standards for Home Elevators.
In India, to install an elevator in any commercial building or residence, a license to assemble and integrate it is required and another license to use the elevator is also required. The Bona-Fides of these licenses vary from state to state. Currently only ten states issue these licenses: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, West Bengal, Delhi, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
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In India, there are some particular set of IS codes and regulations set. For home lifts, the Indian Standard regulation codes are IS 14665 and IS 15259. If it is a machine room less elevator then IS 15785, similarly IS 14671 if it is a hydraulic lift. These standards provide a rule book on the civil measurements alone. Despite of such regulations, India ranks Second highest in Elevator accidents in the World. So, Elevator companies, especially residential elevator companies, should adhere to strict regulations and standards to ensure the utmost safety. Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, there are no proper safety standards for home elevators in India. This allows anyone to be a manufacturer of elevators and the authority to question them is absent due to the absence of such standards.
ThyssenKrupp home lifts are designed in such a way that the entire elevator system can be assembled and integrated with trivial civil modifications and energy consumptions. ThyssenKrupp home lifts comply with European Safety standards of Machine Directive 2006/42/EC and EN 81-41 which requires very basic safety standards to be satisfied to be in the market and also it should be safe for people with physical challenges to use.
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