1.范围1。1本标准规定了电梯、自动扶梯、自动人行道、货运平台电梯及其井道或井道的设计、施工、安装、操作、检查、测试、维护、改造和维修的最低要求，以及临时使用永久性电梯运送工人或材料的最低要求，但不适用于（a）皮带、铲斗、铲子、，滚筒式或类似类型的输送机；（b） 用于将材料进出仓库的便携式分层或打桩机，其位置和操作完全在一层内； （c） 在机床、印刷机、熔炉等处给料或定位材料的设备；（d） 用于提升或降低材料的起重机，配备有无导向吊钩、吊索和用于连接材料的类似装置；（e） 润滑提升机或类似机构；（f） 码头坡道；（g） 娱乐设备；（h） 舞台和乐队升降机；（i） 升降桥；（j） 有轨电车升降机或自卸车；（k） 用于提升和降低建筑材料和在建建筑工人的材料升降机和工人电梯； （l） 载人升降机，平衡式或环形皮带式；（m） 行程小于等于2000 mm且仅用于转移材料或设备的装置，以及行程小于等于500 mm的平台升降机；（n） 垂直输送机；（o） 残疾人电梯。注:（1）私人住宅电梯见附录A。（2） 附录E涵盖了将残疾人要求纳入电梯时对残疾人的建议要求。1. 2例外情况1.2.1如果由于实际困难或字面上的应用会造成不必要的困难而无法严格遵守某项要求，监管机构可以批准例外情况，但前提是明确证明合理的安全性得到了保证。1.2.2监管机构还可以批准例外情况或允许替代方法，前提是可以确保通过建立和维护有效的安全性来实现同等目标。

1. Scope1.1 This Standard establishes minimum requirements for the design, construction, installation, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, moving walks, freight platform lifts, and their hoistways or wellways, and temporary use of permanent elevat ors for carrying workmen or materials, but does not apply to (a) belt, bucket, scoop, roller, or similar type conveyors; (b) portable tiering or piling machines used to move materials to and from storage and located and operating entirely within one storey; (c) equipment for feeding or positioning materials at machine tools, printing presses, furnaces, etc; (d) hoists for raising or lowering materials and which are provided with unguided hooks, slings, and similar means for attachment to the materials; (e) lubrication hoists or similar mechanisms; (f) wharf ramps; (g) amusement devices; (h) stage and orchestra lifts; (i) lift bridges; (j) railroad car lifts or dumpers; (k) material hoists and workmen's elevators used to raise and lower building material and workmen in buildings under construction; (l) manlifts, counterbalanced type or endless belt type; (m) devices having a travel of 2000 mm or less and used only for the transfer of materials or equipment, nor to platform lifts having a travel of 500 mm or less; (n) vertical conveyors; (o) lifts for persons with physical disabilities. Notes: (1) See Appendix A for private residence elevators. (2) Appendix E covers recommended requirements for persons with physical disabilities when such requirements are to be incorporat ed in elevators.1.2 Exceptions 1.2.1 Where a requirement cannot be complied with literally because of practical difficulty or where its literal application would cause undue hardship, the regulatory authority may grant exceptions, but only when it is clearly evident that reasonable safety is assured. 1.2.2 The regulatory authority may also grant exceptions or permit alternative methods where it is assured that equivalent objectives can be achieved by establishing and maintaining effective safety.