The Lifts Regulations 2016

[F1 3.   The technical documentation shall make it possible to assess the conformity of the lift with the applicable essential health and safety requirements set out in Schedule 1. E+W+S

The technical documentation shall contain, where applicable, the following:

(a) a description of the model lift indicating clearly all the permitted variations of the model lift;

(b) design and manufacturing drawings and diagrams;

(c) explanations necessary for the understanding of those drawings and diagrams and of the operation of the lift;

(d) a list of the essential health and safety requirements taken into consideration;

(e) a list of the designated standards applied in full or in part and, where those designated standards have not been applied, descriptions of the solutions adopted to meet the essential health and safety requirements of these Regulations, including a list of other relevant technical specifications applied. In the event of partly applied designated standards, the technical documentation shall specify the parts which have been applied;

(f) a copy of the declarations of conformity of the safety components for lifts incorporated in the lift;

(g) results of design calculations performed by or for the installer;

(h) test reports;

(i) a copy of the instructions referred to in point 7.2 of Schedule 1;

(j) steps taken at the installation stage to ensure that the series-produced lift conforms to the essential health and safety requirements set out in Schedule 1.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Schs. 11-19 inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 22 para. 44 (with Sch. 22 para. 37) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)