
07 April, 2020
Machinery Directive or Lift Regulations?
When moving people or goods, your lift will fall into either the Machinery or the Lift regulations. Whilst all are "lifts" in the general term the regulations do help to...
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18 March, 2020
COVID: Lift Cleaning - a Step by Step Guide
For every lift owner, building owner and facility manager, lift cleaning should be a regular activity, but it sometimes can be overlooked. To help you, we have created a...
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28 October, 2019
Ensuring Platform Lift Safety
At Stannah we believe in keeping our customers, other lift owners and operators advised of issues that may affect lift safety and the passengers that use them. Below is...
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12 October, 2019
Choosing the Right Goods Lift for Your Business
Have a requirement for moving goods? Whether down to manual handling issues or to improve efficiency we can help you identify the type of goods or service lift you...
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07 October, 2019
Part M: Building Regs & Lifts
The Building Regulations, Approved Document M (Part M) gives direction on lifts in all types of buildings, stating that reasonable provision must be made for people to...
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09 September, 2019
BS EN81-80: Lift upgrades for existing lifts
Like technology elsewhere, lifts and lift standards have developed over the years and new safety features have become the norm. In recognition of the fact that lift...
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26 June, 2019
The Equality Act 2010
The Equality Act imposes a requirement to make reasonable adjustments to a public building, Within this blog post, we will explain what the Equality Act is, what it...
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15 June, 2019
Everything You Need to Know About Lift Maintenance | Stannah
Here at Stannah, we understand that lift maintenance, however important, is not a subject that often wets the proverbial appetite! So we pride ourselves on making this...
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07 June, 2019
A Handy List of Escalator & Moving Walkway Standards (updated 2019)
Unsure of what codes of practice, standards and regulations escalators and moving walkways fall under? Not to worry, here's a handy list...
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30 April, 2019
Bike & Bin Lifts: Lifts for Waste Management & Bike Transportation
There is an increasing trend of lifts being used to aid underground storage of bikes/bins in commercial and residential projects. In this short blog post, we outline the...
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30 January, 2019
Avoiding the costs of manual handling & risks with a lift
Did you know? Every year more than a third of all work-related illnesses reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) or local authorities are due to manual...
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03 December, 2018
The Disability Discrimination Act, Equality Act & Lifts
The DDA was introduced over 20 years ago and formed for the industry an invaluable set of standards, eventually becoming part of the Equality Act introduced in 2017....
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26 October, 2018
Specifying Lifts for Care Homes
A helpful guide on the process of specifying lifts for nursing and care homes and all the considerations that need to be taken into account when carrying out this...
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13 September, 2018
The History of Moving Walkways
When it comes to hitching a ride, it doesn’t get easier than moving walkways. Around for over 130 years, they have evolved from simple conveyor belts to sophisticated...
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30 August, 2018
External Lifts & the New BS8300-1 Design Guidance
In January 2018 BS8300:2009 was superseded by BS 8300-2, with the introduction of BS 8300-1. Part 1offers the first comprehensive design guidance for new public spaces....
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15 August, 2018
The History of Escalators
From idea to patent to prototype to full working system, escalators illustrate a common human quest: to make life easier. Read more about the history of the now common...
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