Health and safety implications for a lift in practice

Q.Do you have a lift in your practice and what are the health and safety implications, restrictions and responsibilities in having one.

A.We have a chair lift which is subject to 6 monthly maintenance/servicing and annual certificate of inspection

Health & Safety – you have to ensure your fire evacuation is clear in terms of not using in the event of a fire.

You also need to ensure that chair lift is supervised by a trained team member when it is operated (bit different for lifts I would think).

September 2015