Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-96 - Safety regulations and fees for all elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators and other conveyances › Part D - REGULATIONS FOR EXISTING ELEVATORS, WAC MATERIAL LIFTS, DUMBWAITERS, ESCALATORS, AND ACCESSIBILITY LIFTS › Subpart III - Alterations, Repairs, Maintenance, and Testing › Section 296-96-23605 - Examination of WAC material lifts, special purpose elevators, electric manlifts, and hand-powered manlifts

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Examination
				  WAC material lifts, special purpose lifts, electric manlifts and hand elevators
				  shall conform to the following:
(a) Annual
				  examination requirements for electrical elevators. Service providers shall
				  furnish documentation to include the following components or systems that shall
				  be examined if installed.
(b)
				  Inside car:
Stop switches, operating control devices, car lighting and
					 auxiliary lighting*, car emergency signal, car door or gate, ventilation,
					 restricted opening of car or hoistway doors, car ride, stopping accuracy, car
					 enclosure, emergency exits, signs and operating device symbols; and equipment
					 exposure to weather*.
(c)
				  Machine room/control room:
Guarding of equipment, stop switch, disconnecting means
					 and control, controller wiring, fuses, grounding, etc., machinery supports and
					 fastenings, drive machine brakes, traction drive machines, gears, bearings, and
					 flexible connections, winding drum machine, absorption of regenerated power,
					 traction sheaves, secondary and deflector sheaves, rope fastenings, operating
					 devices, code data plate*, slack rope devices, wiring diagrams, rope retainers
					 or restraints, equipment exposure to weather*, and fire extinguisher*.
(d) Top-of-car:
(i) Top-of-car stop switch, car top light and
				  outlet, top-of-car operating device and/or working platforms, car, overhead,
				  and deflector sheaves, crosshead data plate, traveling cables and junction
				  boxes, door and gate equipment, car frame and stiles, guide rails fastening and
				  equipment, governor rope, governor releasing carrier, fastening and hitch
				  plate, suspension means, compensation means, machinery supports and fastenings,
				  guarding of exposed auxiliary equipment, rope retainers and snag guards,
				  position restraints, top emergency exit, hoistway construction*, equipment
				  exposure to weather*; and
(ii)
				  Working areas on the car top: Means to prevent unexpected movement, unexpected
				  car movement device, operating instructions for unexpected care movement
				  device, and operating instructions for egress and reentry procedure.
(e) Outside hoistway:
Car platform guard, hoistway doors, hoistway door locking
					 devices, access to hoistway, emergency and access hoistway openings, separate
					 counterweight hoist-way, elevator parking devices, and equipment exposure to
					 weather*.
(f) Pit:
Pit access, lighting, stop switch and condition, bottom
					 clearance and runby, traveling cables, compensating chains, ropes, and sheaves,
					 car frame and platform, machinery supports and fastenings, guarding of exposed
					 auxiliary equipment, equipment exposure to weather*, and buffers.
Note:
(*) A visual component that must be reported to
								the owner.