Lift Safety Policy

This glossary defines key terms used throughout this policy:

• Examination scheme - The Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) (opens new window)LOLER permits a scheme of examination (examination scheme), drawn up by a competent person, as an alternative to the fixed maximum periods of a thorough examination.
• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 - Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (opens new window) makes employers, such as landlords, responsible for the health and safety of employees and people using or visiting their premises, so far as reasonably practicable (including tenants).  For passenger lifts in communal blocks and for tenanted properties with domestic lifts, duties may be adequately discharged by adopting the same provisions as applies to all other lifting equipment covered by LOLER (carrying out regular maintenance and a six-monthly thorough examination).
• Insurance - Insurers may impose demands for similarly stringent levels of risk management to cover public liability.
• IOSH Managing Safely course - The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) have designed the IOSH Managing Safely course for managers and supervisors of organisations in virtually all industry sectors, in order to give them all they need to know to effectively manage health and safety in the workplace.
• LEIA - The Lift and Escalator Industry Association is the trade association and advisory body for the lift and escalator industry.
• LOLER - The Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) (opens new window) - regulations which place duties on people and companies who own, operate or have control over lifting equipment.
• Thorough examination - A systematic and detailed examination of the equipment and safety-critical parts, carried out at specified intervals by a competent person who must then complete a written report.
• PUWER - Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (opens new window) - legislation which places duties on people and companies who own, operate or have control over work equipment. PUWER also places responsibilities on businesses and organisations whose employees use work equipment whether owned by them or not.
• There is some overlap between The Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) (opens new window) and Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (opens new window), which applies to all work equipment, including lifting equipment (such as hoists, lift trucks, elevating work platforms and lifting slings). The scope of this policy includes for lifts which are fixed within properties owned and managed by us (for example, passenger/stairlifts/through floor lifts) and not mobile lifting equipment.