Coronavirus update: Lifts 27.03.20

27th March 2020 - 4:07pm

Coronavirus Update: Lifts

27.03.20

We bring to your attention some important news associated with the safe use of passenger lifts and other type of lifts in developments managed by Charles White Ltd.  We have been in dialogue with and receiving updates from lift companies who in the main are now providing us with the following key information in light of the coronavirus situation:

• routine maintenance visits are temporarily suspended to ensure sufficient lift engineers are available to attend in cases of emergency
• in a case of entrapment (someone stuck in a lift) the engineer will give priority to attend
• if a lift inspection service report advises a lift requires some form of urgent repair, the lift engineer will endeavour to attend, failing which we may have no option but to have the lift isolated for safety purposes
• where possible owners are encouraged to use the stairs rather than the lift until such times as normal services are resumed
• it is anticipated routine maintenance visits will resume when government coronavirus restrictions are lifted

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