Elevator fireman’s service phase I & II

This is a reminder to building owners, elevator companies, elevator mechanics, elevator inspectors and all involved with elevators that elevators with fireman’s service phase I & II need to exercised monthly.

A17.1 2013 - 8.6.11.1 Firefighters’ emergency options – all elevators provided with firefighters emergency operation shall be subjected monthly, by authorized personnel, to Phase I recall by use of the key switch, and a minimum of one-floor operation on phase II, exception in jurisdictions enforcing the NBCC.  Deficiencies shall be corrected.  A record of findings shall be available to elevator personnel and the authority having jurisdiction.

[This is the log for the City of Chicago that needs to be the elevator machine room]

What this means is there should be a chart in the elevator machine room which indicates someone has checked the Fireman’s service Phase I & II and indicates if it worked properly.  Elevator mechanics should be checking this for the building owners during maintenance visits but it also allows for authorized personnel to check Fireman’s service.  Authorized personnel are people who have been trained on how to use Fireman’s service.  If you have not been trained on how to operate Fireman’s service you should not be using Fireman’s service.

[Phase I key switch]

 [Phase II key switch is typically in the car station above the floor call buttons]

If you are a building owner or building management and your elevator company does not come every month it is up to you to have the fireman’s service exercise completed.  It is recommended that a trained elevator person complete this task but if someone at the building is competent and can be trained they can complete this exercise as well.   At times we find that non elevator personnel attempt to test fireman’s service but they do not fully understand how it operates and it locks the elevator up.  For this reason we recommend having a trained elevator person complete this task.  With more buildings not having monthly elevator maintenance visits this is something that can be overlooked yet is very important to be completed. 

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Duration – 7:10pm to 10:10pm

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