California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 6 - Elevator Safety Orders › Group II - Elevator Installations for Which the Installation Contract Was Signed Before October 25, 1998 › Article 7 - Hoistways, Hoistway Enclosures, and Related Construction for Power Cable-Driven Passenger and Freight Elevators › Section 3020 - Protection of Hoistway Landing Openings

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Hoistway Entrances. Protection of
						hoistway entrances shall conform to the governing building codes. The
						regulations included in this section establish the minimum entrance standards.
						These regulations are not intended to supersede applicable local building codes
						establishing higher standards. The locations, clearances, and guarding
						requirements of this section shall be maintained.
(1) Hoistway Doors Required on Passenger
						Elevators.
All passenger elevator hoistway landing openings, giving
						access to the car platform, shall be provided with hoistway doors which will
						fill the full height and width of the openings.
(2) Hoistway Doors or Gates Required on
						Freight Elevators.
All freight elevator hoistway landing openings,
						giving access to the car platform, shall be provided with hoistway doors which
						will fill the full height and width of the openings or shall be provided with
						gates.
(3) Landing Sills
						and Guards and Tracks on Landings.
(A) Metal
						sills, of sufficient strength to support the load to be carried by the sill
						when loading or unloading the car, shall be permanently secured in place at
						each hoistway door opening. Sills shall be substantially level with the floor
						surface of the elevator landing or shall be beveled to meet the floor surface,
						and for passenger elevators shall be so designed and maintained as to provide
						secure foothold for the entire width of the door opening.
Landing sills of freight elevators shall be designed
						  and installed to withstand the loads specified in Section
						  3037(b)
(B) The hoistway wall opposite the car
						entrance shall be smooth. Recesses or projections in excess of 1 in. (25mm)
						shall be beveled at an angle of not less than 60 degrees nor more than 75
						degrees from the horizontal. The wall opposite the car entrance and below the
						landing sills shall conform to the following:
1.
Where a car leveling device is
						provided, the hoistway shall be plumb with the edge of the landing sill and
						shall have a straight vertical face extending below the landing sill not less
						than the length of the leveling zone plus 3 in. (76mm).
2. Where no car leveling device is provided,
						the hoistway shall be plumb with the edge of the landing sill and shall have a
						straight vertical face extending below the landing sill not less than 3 in.
						(76mm).
3. The straight vertical
						face required below the landing sills of passenger elevators shall be of smooth
						metal not less than No. 16 M.S. gage.
4. Vertically sliding biparting doors or
						vertically sliding doors which slide down to open shall be considered to meet
						the requirements of Sections
						3020(a)(3)(B)1,
						and 3020(a)(3)(B)2,
						provided the doors meet the requirements of Section
						3020(b)(8).
(C) The building corridors shall be lighted
						to conform to the requirements of CCR, Title 24, Article 620.
(D) The tops of railroad tracks located on
						elevator landings shall be substantially flush with the floor surface for a
						distance of at least 6 ft (1.83m) from the sill edge.
(E) Hinged hoistway landing sills may be
						provided in connection with vertically sliding, biparting, counterbalanced
						doors of freight elevators provided the sills are hinged on the landing side so
						that they can be lowered only when the landing doors are in the fully opened
						position.
(4) Minimum
						Size of Hoistway Entrances. The clear opening provided by elevator entrances
						shall be not less than 78 in. (1.98m) high nor less than 30 in. (762mm)
						wide.