scope:

This part of ISO/TS 25740:

- specifies global essential safety requirements (GESRs) for escalators and moving walks, their components and functions, and

- establishes a system and provides methods for minimizing safety risks that might arise in the course of the operation and use of, or work on, escalators and moving walks.

NOTE See Clause 5 regarding the use and application of this part of ISO/TS 25740.

This part of ISO/TS 25740 is applicable to escalators and moving walks that are intended to carry persons. The escalators and moving walks to which this part of ISO/TS 25740 applies can:

a) be located in any permanent and fixed structure or building;

b) have any

1) rated load, size of load carrying unit (LCU) and speed, and

2) travel height;

c) be affected by fire in the environment of the LCU and weather conditions;

d) be misused.

This part of ISO/TS 25740 does not specifically cover:

- all needs of users with disabilities¹⁾;

- risks arising from work on escalators and moving walks under construction or during alterations and dismantling; vandalism; fire in the environment outside the LCU.

1) Although the GESRs specified in this part of ISO/TS 25740 have been identified and evaluated by risk assessment, not all disabilities or combinations of such disabilities of users have necessarily been addressed.