Technical Booklet R Access to and Use of Buildings·Page 35·4.42
Lifting platform door clear width
Doors must provide an effective clear width of at least 900 mm for platforms 1100 mm wide and 1400 mm deep, or 800 mm in other cases. Doors must be visually contrasted from adjacent wall surfaces.
A lifting platform should have a door or doors which provide an effective clear width of not less than –
(a) 900 mm, where the size of the lifting platform is not less than 1100 mm wide and not less than 1400 mm deep; or
(b) 800 mm in any other case.
A door or doors to a lifting platform should be distinguishable, through suitable visual contrast, from that of the adjacent wall surfaces.
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