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Elevator Guide For Emergency Personnel

This document provides information about ASME A17.4 - 2015, a guide for emergency personnel that has been published since 1972 to provide guidance for evacuating passengers from stalled elevators and firefighters' operating procedures. The 2015 revision contains significant updates, including changes to rescue team organization and training, evacuation procedures, earthquake rescue, and more. The guide is intended for building owners and emergency personnel and is to be used with other ASME safety standards.

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Elevator Guide For Emergency Personnel

This document provides information about ASME A17.4 - 2015, a guide for emergency personnel that has been published since 1972 to provide guidance for evacuating passengers from stalled elevators and firefighters' operating procedures. The 2015 revision contains significant updates, including changes to rescue team organization and training, evacuation procedures, earthquake rescue, and more. The guide is intended for building owners and emergency personnel and is to be used with other ASME safety standards.

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Guide for Emergency Personnel

A Standard for Engineers and Safety Personnel Worldwide

ASME A17.4 – 2015 Order Today:


Phone: 1.800.843.2763
ASME has been publishing the ASME A17.4, Guide for Emergency Fax: 1.973.882.5155
Personnel since 1972. This guide was originally developed as a result Email: customercare@asme.org
of a demand from many building owners, lessees, and operating Web: www.asme.org/kb/standards
managements needing guidance for the evacuation of passengers
from stalled elevator cars. Today it has evolved to provide guidance
ASME A17.4 – 2015, Guide for Emergency Personnel
for the evacuation of passengers from stalled elevator cars as well as
firefighters’ service operating procedures. ISBN: 9780791869673
No. Pages: 44
Significant revisions and updates have been made since the last Digital Download (PDF) / Order No. A1251Q
publication in 1999. Print-Book / Order No. A12515

Key changes to this revision include:


• Rescue team organization and training
• Evacuation procedures from elevator cars
• Rescue following an earthquake
• Elevator system lockdown
• Firefighters’ service operating procedures (updated to
2010 edition of A17.1)
• Emergency/standby power operation

ASME Codes and Standards


A17.4 is to be used in conjunction with other volumes of ASME’s A17
series of safety standards. Careful application of these A17 safety ASME is the leading international developer of codes and
standards will help users to comply with applicable regulations within standards associated with the art, science, and practice of
mechanical engineering. Starting with the first issuance of
their jurisdictions, while achieving the operational and safety benefits
its legendary Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code in 1914, ASME’s
to be gained from the many industry best-practices detailed within codes and standards have grown to nearly 600 offerings
these volumes. currently in print.

Intended for building owners, lessees, and operating managements, To learn more, visit www.asme.org/Shop/Standards.
along with anyone engaged in the safety of elevators, escalators and To volunteer on an ASME committee, visit
related conveyances. http://go.asme.org/ParticipateInStandards

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