The Lifts and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA) have put together this really useful guidance covering ‘Checks and inspections of lifts for use by firefighters, evacuation lifts, and lifts with recall’
If you have a lift in your building you'll find this very useful as it provides practical advice for lift owners/ responsible persons, competent persons undertaking a thorough examination and calling for any supplementary tests, and lift maintenance providers.
Lift owners/ responsible persons might find this guidance of use in fulfilling their duties under regulations such as The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO), The Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006 and The Fire Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010.
This guidance also includes details of checks to address the requirements of The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (FSER), Regulation 7, which came into force on 23 January 2023 in England. The FSER have been laid under article 24 of the Fire Safety Order and make it a legal requirement for the responsible person of a high-rise residential building (HRRB) to carry out monthly routine checks of lifts for use by firefighters and evacuation lifts.
Where the responsible person identifies any fault with a lift for use by firefighters or an evacuation lift, they must take steps to rectify the fault. Where a fault cannot be rectified within 24-hours, the responsible person must report the fault (and later when it has been rectified) to the local fire and rescue authority (Fire and Rescue Service – FRS).
The responsible person is required to record the outcome of checks in an open and transparent way that is also accessible to residents.
There’s also a section which helps you to identify the different lift types.
You can download the guide here – we hope you find it useful.
