Posted By Adrian Woon Before entering the health and safety profession, I was trained as a lift engineer. Releasing passengers who are stuck in passenger lifts should only be undertaken by trained and competent lift personnel. Reason: for example, a lift can develop an intermittent fault which can clear unexpectantly and the lift will move.......

Posted By David A Cooper The requiremenst for training are set out in BS7255. I am sad to report that I have investigated a couple of fatal accidents where lift emergency release training has gone wrong and the matter is compounded by some fire brigades openly admitting in their web sites that they are not the best people to undertake release procedures. I have been in the lift industry for 29 years and it frightens me how even "trained lift engineers" undertake emergency releases. Part of the problem is that the industry is full of people who call themselves "engineers" but who have no technical qualifications with respect to lifts hence the statistics show that lifts are more likely to injure engineers working on them as opposed to escalators where passengers tend to get hurt.