Texas Administrative Code › Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES › Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES › Chapter 117 - END STAGE RENAL DISEASE FACILITIES › Subchapter H - PHYSICAL PLANT AND CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS › Section 117.103 - Elevators, Escalators, and Conveyors

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) All buildings that have patient services
				  located on other than the main entrance floor shall have electric or
				  electrohydraulic elevators. The elevators shall be installed in sufficient
				  quantity, capacity, and speed to ensure that the average interval of dispatch
				  time will not exceed one minute, and average peak loading can be accommodated.
				  Elevators shall also give access to all building levels normally used by the
				  public. Escalators and conveyors are not required but, when provided, shall
				  comply with these requirements and the requirement of §20.3 of the
				  National Fire Protection Association 101, Life Safety Code, 2003 Edition (NFPA
				  101), published by the National Fire Protection Association. All documents
				  published by the NFPA as referenced in this section may be obtained by writing
				  or calling the NFPA at the following address and telephone number: Post Office
				  Box 9101, 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, Massachusetts 02269-9101, (800)
				  344-3555.
(b) New elevators,
				  escalators and conveyors shall be installed in accordance with the requirements
				  of Health and Safety Code, Chapter 754, Elevators, Escalators, and Related
				  Equipment, and A17.1 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, 2000 edition,
				  published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the
				  American National Standards Institute (ANSI). All documents published by the
				  ASME/ANSI as referenced in this section may be obtained by writing the ANSI,
				  United Engineering Center, 345 East 47th Street, New York, New York 10017.
(1) Elevators shall not open to an exit or
				  exit passageway.
(2) A facility
				  located above the ground floor shall have an elevator of sufficient size to
				  accommodate a gurney available at all times. Minimum elevator car size shall be
				  five feet wide and seven feet deep.
(3) The smallest elevator car door opening
				  shall be at least three feet wide and seven feet high.
(4) When light beams are used for operating
				  door opening devices, the beams shall be used in combination with door edge
				  devices and shall be interconnected with a system of smoke detectors. The light
				  control feature shall be disengaged when smoke is detected in any elevator
				  lobby.
(5) Elevator call buttons,
				  controls, and door safety stops shall be of a type that will not be activated
				  by heat or smoke.
(6) All elevators
				  shall be equipped with an automatic leveling device of the two-way automatic
				  maintaining type with an accuracy of one-half inch.
(7) All elevators, except freight elevators,
				  shall be equipped with a two-way key operated service switch permitting cars to
				  bypass all landing button calls and be dispatched directly to any
				  floor.
(8) Elevator controls, alarm
				  buttons, and telephones shall be accessible to wheelchair occupants in
				  accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
(9) A smoke detection system for elevator
				  recall shall be located in elevator lobbies, elevator machine rooms and at the
				  top of elevator hoist ways as required by NFPA 72, §6.15.3.10.
(A) The elevator recall smoke detection
				  system in new construction shall comply with requirements of American Society
				  of Mechanical Engineers/American National Standards Institute (ASME/ANSI)
				  A17.1, Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, 2000 edition. The publications
				  of the ASME/ANSI referenced in this section may be obtained by writing
				  ASME/ANSI, United Engineering Center, 345 East 47th Street, New York, New York
				  10017.
(B) The elevator recall
				  smoke detection system in existing ESRD facilities shall comply with
				  requirements of ASME/ANSI A17.3, Safety Code for Existing Elevators and
				  Escalators, 2002 edition.
(10) Elevator machine rooms that contain
				  solid-state equipment for elevators having a travel distance of more than 50
				  feet above the level of exit discharge or more than 30 feet below the level of
				  exit discharge shall be provided with independent ventilation or air
				  conditioning systems with the capability to maintain an operating temperature
				  during fire fighter service operations. The operating temperature shall be
				  established by the elevator equipment manufacturer's specifications and shall
				  be posted in each such elevator machine room. When standby power is connected
				  to the elevator, the machine room ventilation or air conditioning shall be
				  connected to standby power. These requirements are not applicable to existing
				  elevators.
(11) An ESRD facility
				  shall have all elevators and escalators routinely and periodically inspected
				  and tested as specified in ASME/ANSI A17.1, Safety Code for Elevators and
				  Escalators, 2000 edition. All elevators equipped with fire fighter service
				  shall be subject to a monthly operation with a written record of the findings
				  made and kept on the premises as required by NFPA 101, §9.4.6.
(12) An ESRD facility shall obtain a
				  certificate of inspection evidencing that the elevators, escalators, and
				  conveyors and related equipment were inspected in accordance with the
				  requirements in Health and Safety Code (HSC), Chapter 754, Subchapter B, and
				  determined to be in compliance with the safety standards adopted under HSC,
				  §754.014, administered by the Texas Department of Licensing and
				  Regulation. The certificate of inspection shall be on record in each
				  center.