Duty Holders
Your Responsibilities
As a Duty Holder, the safe and suitable operation of the lift(s) is your responsibility. This involves meeting a range of legal obligations as part of your daily workload. At times, understanding the full extent of these responsibilities and ensuring they are met can be challenging. That's where we come in.
We can assist you in meeting your legal obligations, such as understanding the requirements for retaining a list of assets under PUWER regulations. We can advise you on what information should be included in the register, as well as who is responsible for creating, retaining, and maintaining it.
Since, as a Duty Holder, you also have responsibility for undertaking suitable & sufficient Risk Assessments and making suitable Health & Safety arrangements, we’ll be able to help with that also.
We can provide expert guidance on how to carry out these duties effectively.
To help ensure the efficient operation of your VT portfolio, we offer management services that augment your existing service offering to your clients, whether they be the landlord, tenants or housing associations.
Lift Code Compliance
To understand the modernisation needs of each lift, utilise BS EN 81-80 (Rules for the Improvement of Safety of Existing Passenger and Goods Passenger Lifts).
This provides, in Annex A, a formalised list of 94 significant hazards that must be reviewed and should therefore form part of the data gathering before any decisions are made.
Additional Standards cross-referenced in the pursuit of your requisite knowledge as a Duty Holder include BS EN 81-70 (Accessibility to lifts for persons including persons with disability) and BS EN 81-82 (Existing lifts Rules for the improvement of the accessibility of existing lifts for persons including persons with disability).
Knowledge of this suite of key safety elements in direct relation to each lift afforded to your lift portfolio provides the ability to not only demonstrate that you meet your legal responsibilities but also with the proactive knowledge of what upgrade requirements are on the horizon (with timescales), and what budget costs your organisation will need moving forward.
