Standard Procedure for Mantrap

Rescue Operation

This operation shall be carried out by authorized persons only. Any accident or damage resulted from carrying
out such an operation by unauthorized persons shall not be the owner’s or contractor’s responsibility.

An authorized person means that he has been trained by lift supplier and his name and his identity card may be
required to be registered to the local authority having jurisdiction on the legal operation of the elevator
concerned.

Work procedure
1. The authorized person should communicate with the person or persons who are trapped inside the lift car.
Find out how many persons are inside and instruct them to remain calm and stay away from the car door.

2. Turn off the electric supply at the main switchboard in the machine room to the elevator where the persons
are trapped inside the elevator car. In this case, lift No. 2 is the lift that has broken down. Turn off the
isolator/switchboard for lift No. 2 only.

Talk to the passenger Turn off lift 02 Unlock doors

3. Proceed with the rescue operation by opening the landing door with the landing door key at the floor where
elevator cage has stopped.

4. If the elevator car is located at a level of more than ± 600mm to the nearest landing floor, then don’t release
the passenger. If the elevator car is not level to safely bring the passengers out then sometimes it is advised to
open the door approximately only about 200mm to allow fresh air or light into lift car to make the passengers
feel more comfortable while waiting for the lift technician to arrive.

Release brake.

Rescue works should be carried out by a lift technician as there is the danger that such rescue works may result
in the risk of a fatal accident of the trapped passengers falling back into the lift shaft.

The lift technician is trained to manually bring the lift to the nearest landing floor level by slowly releasing the
brake at the traction machine in the lift motor room.

[NOTE: THIS OPERATION MUST ONLY BE DONE BY TRAINED LIFT TECHNICIAN]

Note
If the elevator car is located at a level of more than ± 600mm to the nearest landing floor, don’t release the
passenger. Rescue works should be carried out by lift technician.

At level. Above landing. Below landing.

Dangers
SOMETIMES A FATAL ACCIDENT CAN OCCUR WHEN PASSENGERS CAME OUT BY
THEMSELVES AND FALL BACK INTO LIFT SHAFT

Falling into shaft.