Essential Tips For Lift Safety

Lifts are the most used mass-transit system used throughout the world, transporting workers, residents, customers, and delivery personnel throughout office residential blocks all around the world.

As with any heavy machinery, lifts must be maintained and serviced to ensure they are working correctly and safely to help reduce the risks of serious accidents or even death.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) states that passenger lifts and combined goods and passenger lifts in workplaces that are primarily used by people at work should be subject to periodic thorough examination and inspection.

This is required by Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) and the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) legislation.

We look at some tips to make sure that your business does not fail when it comes to lift safety.

All lifts must be properly maintained and subjected to a thorough inspection by competent personnel, as a failure of the lift can potentially result in serious injury or death.

Anyone with responsibility for lifting equipment  should:

•   Arrange thorough examinations for all lifts at a frequency specified by the competent person.

•   Retain a report/certificate that gives information on the safety of the lift.

•   Maintain the lifts in accordance with manufacturer’s or installer’s instructions, and keep an up-to-date maintenance log.

•   Instruct staff in their safe use, including emergency procedures associated with the lift.

•   Train key staff in the procedures to be taken in the event of a lift breakdown and when people need to be released.

•   Train key staff to carry out routine safety checks.

•   Keep all moving parts of the lift machinery guarded.

•   Prevent unauthorised persons from entering the lift plant room.

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