B44-00

CSA Preface

Historical Overview

This is the ninth edition of CSA Standard B44, Safety Code for Elevators. It supersedes the previous editions published in 1994, 1990, 1985, 1975, 1971, 1966, 1960, and 1938.

This Standard was originally prepared to meet a desire for uniform legislation throughout the various provinces and to replace the legislation previously existing in Canada, which had proved inadequate in view of the then prevailing elevator practices. Its primary purposes are to provide reasonable safety for those persons who come in contact with elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, moving walks, and material lifts by establishing minimum standards for design, installation, and maintenance, and for adoption by regulatory authorities throughout Canada. It is also intended as a standard reference for use by architects, consulting engineers, elevator manufacturers, and owners.

Section 1.1 - Scope

1.1.1 Equipment Covered by This Code

This Code covers the design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the following equipment, its associated parts, and its hoistways, where located in or adjacent to a building or structure (except as modified by 1.2):

(a) hoisting and lowering mechanisms, equipped with a car or platform, which move between two or more landings. This equipment includes, but is not limited to elevators (see 1.3).

(b) power-driven stairways and walkways for carrying persons between landings. This equipment includes, but is not limited to escalators and moving walks (see 1.3).

(c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car which serves two or more landings and is restricted to the carrying of material by its limited size or limited access to the car. This equipment includes, but is not limited to dumbwaiters and material lifts (see 1.3).

1.1.2 Equipment Not Covered by This Code

Equipment not covered by this Code includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(a) personnel hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.4 and CSA Z185;

(b) material hoists within the scope of ANSI A10.5 and CSA Z256;

(c) platform lifts and stairway chairlifts within the scope of ASME A18.1, CSA B355, and CSA B613;

(d manlifts within the scope of ASME A90.1 and CSA B311;

c1.1.2(d)

(d) manlifts within the scope of ASME A90.1, CSA B311, and Special Purpose Personnel Elevators 5.7;

(e) mobile scaffolds, towers, and platforms within the scope of ANSI A92 and CSA B354;

(f) powered platform and equipment for exterior and interior building maintenance within the scope of ANSI A120.1 and CSA Z271;

(g) conveyors and related equipment within the scope of ASME B20.1;

(h) cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings within the scope of ASME B30, CSA Z150, CSA B167, CSA Z202, and CSA Z248;

(i) industrial trucks within the scope of ASME B56 and CSA B335;

(j) portable equipment, except for portable escalators, which are covered by 6.1;

(k) tiering or piling machines used to move material to and from storage located and operating entirely within one story;

(l) equipment for feeding or positioning material at machine tools, printing presses, etc.;

(m) skip or furnace hoists;

(n) wharf ramps;

(o) amusement devices;

(p) stage and orchestra lifts;

(q) lift bridges;

(r) railroad car lifts and dumpers;

(s) mechanized parking garage equipment;

(t) line jacks, false cars, shafters, moving platforms, and similar equipment used for installing an elevator;

(u) platform elevators installed in a ship or offshore drilling rig and used for the purpose of loading and unloading cargo, equipment, and personnel;

(v) dock levelers (freight platform lifts) having a travel of 500 mm (12 in.) or less;

(w) in Canadian jurisdictions, devices having a travel of 2 000 mm (79 in.) or less and used only for the transfer of materials or equipment.

c1.1.2(x)

(x) mine elevators within the scope of 5.9.

1.1.3 Application of Parts

This Code applies to new installations only, except Part 1, and 5.10, 8.1, 8.6, 8.7, 8.9, 8.10, and 8.11, which apply to both new and existing installations.

1.1.4 Effective Date

c1.1.4 (Deleted)

NOTE (c1.1.4): Not applicable in Canada. See CSA Foreword.

The requirements of this Edition of and subsequent Addenda to the Code are effective as of the date established by the local regulations of the authority having jurisdiction. Where the Code has not been adopted by local regulation and a specific edition or addenda has not been stipulated by contractual agreement, compliance with this Edition or Addenda is recommended as of the effective date listed in the front of the document.