Axess 4 All - A Cibes Lift Group Company

• A5000 Platform Lift
• A7000 Platform Lift
• A1000 Incline Stair Lift
• A2000 Step Lift
• A3000 Platform Lift
• Service Hoist

Codes and Standards

New European safety standard for platform lifts.

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have decided that platform lifts fall under the jurisdiction of the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC and will henceforth fall under the new amended Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. So in legal terms a lifting platform is a machine and not a lift.

Platform lifts under the Machinery Directive are regarded as Annex IV machines.

For travel heights of more than 3, 0 m. platform lifts must pass an EC Type examination performed by an accredited European Notified body.

Platform lifts must carry an EC declaration of Conformity and be CE marked before they can be legally placed on the markets in the European Community.

The working group CEN/TC10/WG8 has drafted a new European standard EN 81-41 for vertical platform lifts intended for use by persons with impaired mobility. (Impaired mobility is defined as having trouble taking stairs).

Platform lifts that are designed, manufactured and supplied must comply with all the relevant essential health and safety requirements of the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC and the new amended forthcoming Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.

The European safety standard EN 81-41 was accepted by the CEN Member States by Formal Vote on 06 January 2009. The new European standard EN 81-41 will give presumption of conformity to both the present and to the new amended forthcoming Machinery Directive.

The new EN standard 81-41will make it easier for Authorities, architects and planners to understand and for European Notified bodies to assess, the safety requirements for vertical platform lifts.

The new standard EN 81-41 will improve and raise the safety requirements for European platform lifts, for the benefit of the users.

Cibes platform lifts A5000 and A7000 are already in full compliance with the safety requirements of the new European standard EN 81-41.