Lift & Escalator Owner News

September 2025: Lift & Escalator Owner News – Use of firefighters car key switches

August 2025: The digital switch – UK Government Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) Letter to Building Managers

August 2025: European Lift Association (ELA) Information Note – Data Act

Previous issues which cover topics of interest are included below.

• December 2024: European Lift Association (ELA) Information Note – Phase out of legacy telecommunication technology
• October 2024: Lift Escalator Owner News – Telescopic Ladders
• July 2024: Lift and Escalator Owner News – European Lift Association (ELA) Summary and main changes from EN 81-70 to EN 81-70:2021+A1:2022
• January 2024 (revising December 2022): LEIA Guidance Note – Operational checks and inspections of lifts used by firefighters, evacuation lifts and lifts with recall
• January 2024: Lift Escalator Owner News – BREEAM Credits for Escalators and Moving Walks
• July 2023: Lift & Escalator Owner News – Digital switch warning about lift alarm calls
• July 2023: Lift & Escalator Owner News – FAQ – Fire Safety (England) Regulations.
• May 2023: Lift and Escalator Owner News – European Lift Association (ELA) guidance for improving safety, accessibility and energy efficiency in modernizing existing lifts
• December 2022: LEIA Guidance Note – Checks and inspections of lifts for use by firefighters, evacuation lifts, and lifts with recall
• December 2022: Lift & Escalator Owner News – Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
• July 2022: Smoke resistant lift landing entrances
• April 2022: Fire resistant lift landing entrances tested to BS EN 81-58
• December 2021 (revising August 2021) – Refuge space derogation to 3(2), 3(3) and 3(4) of Schedule 1 of the Lifts Regulations
• December 2021: The digital switch – from analogue telephone lines to fibre
• December 2021: Evacuation lift standards
• December 2021: Identifying lifts for fire service use & evacuation lift types
• June 2021: Calls to Fire Service to release passengers shut-in lifts
• May 2021: New London Plan – evacuation lifts guidance
• May 2021: SAFed Guidelines on the supplementary tests of in-service lifts (revising July 2020)
• August 2020: COVID-19: Guidance for lift, escalator and moving walk users and owners (revising June and 6 April 2020)
• August 2020: Inspection, maintenance, thorough examination and supplementary testing of lifts intended for use by firefighters and evacuation-lifts (revising March 2020)
• June 2020: COVID-19 and HSE guidance on thorough examination (revising 20 April 2020)
• December 2019: TGN18rev1 Risk of falls from escalators and moving walks
• November 2019 Analogue telephone shutdown and migration to VOIP-based services
• November 2019: AYA79 Improvement of existing lifts for use by the fire services
• August 2019 AYA78 LFB withdrawn blanket approvals for BS EN 81-72 deviations
• November 2018 Safety and accessibility in the built environment
• September 2018 Lift door passenger protection devices
• April 2017 Lift safety in the modern built environment
• April 2017 Why do I need to have my equipment maintained?
• January 2017 Recall of lifts in the event of fire
• March 2016 Approved document M 2015
• December 2015  Telephone lines and lifts
• December 2015  Voltage reduction systems
• August 2014  In-service thorough examination of lifting equipment
• December 2013  Use of mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs with lifts
• May 2013  LEIA Code of practice for maintenance
• March 2013  Dangers of over-riding door locking safety devices
• November 2012  AYA71 Decommissioning, dismantling and removal of lifts