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Lift Room Safety. Can other machinery be in there?
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#1 Posted : 07 December 2008 21:01:00(UTC)
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Posted By Safety110 We have an office block to which has a pneumatic lift. On as safety report it was stated that the air humidifier that is positioned in the lift room had to be moved as nothing else apart from lift equipment should be in that room. I could see the point if there was moving machinery but all the working components are in the lift shaft. The building was built in 1999 and I can not seem to find any legalisation to state that it must be moved. I have got some things on lift shafts but not lift rooms. I can understand that it is good practice to only allow competent persons in such rooms and at the design stage this would be good but it would take thousands to actually move the equipment totally. All advice welcome. Thanks
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#2 Posted : 08 December 2008 14:25:00(UTC)
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Posted By Della Pearlman I'm not a lift expert, but I did have a quick search for you: BS 7255: 2001 Code of practice for safe working on lifts does say that in situations where the lift machinery and equipment occupy a small space within a larger room, such equipment should be segregated from the rest of the room - You might therefore be able to interprete that as retaining your other machinery in the area, providing that you segregate the lift machinery - you might need to look at the standard itself to check (from BSI, or sometimes available from your local library)
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#3 Posted : 08 December 2008 15:53:00(UTC)
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Posted By phil beresford you have mail
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#4 Posted : 09 December 2008 09:02:00(UTC)
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Posted By Brian Hagyard Safety 110 I am no lift expert either, but it was my understanding that it's the "Winding" gear on a lift that's the real issue and the potential for nasty accidents if untrained people have access to this. The pneumatic lifts I have come across have all been very small (one or two floor lift only) and they did not have winding gear so I don't see it as such a problem. However I think Della has given you a good compromise - screen the lift equipment with a separate "fence" with lockable gate and should not be any issue at all. If I have made a major error in my assumptions I would welcome a correction from any other forum user - we can all learn something every day. Brian
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