Chas, the barrier is normally provided by the servicing company, in some buildings a barrier is left in the lift motor room, on other occasions the service engineer will have one in his van. It is highly unlikely that two landing doors will be open at the same time so one barrier is sufficient.

My understanding is that it is always the property controllers responsibility to ensure they are provided - this does NOT mean that they must provide. The best method is to ensure the contract requires the maintenance engineers to provide. They will then be using their own equipment with which they will be familiar. Bob

This is similar to a previous question regarding lift inspections and the competant persons. You will probably find that after a lift 6 month inspection, contained within the susequent report to the client will be a section covering Health & Safety works required! The Insurance companies who usually carry out the inspections will now note whether there is a barrier located within the lift motor room and if not request one is porovided. So when attending a site one of the steps in a lift engineers method statement/risk assessment will ask if there is a barrier provided on site! The onus is on site because not all service engineers carry a barrier and historically when the lift is first installed its part of the check list to enable an EN81 Dec of Conformity to be issued, and the lift would not be normally handed over without all the required H&s items on site. Hope this helps.