PI's: Lift Safety Checks
Stock Condition & Asset Management: Lift Safety Checks
BS05: Lift safety checks
Rationale, Definition & Worked Example
Below you can find information regarding the rationale, definition and formula for this performance indicator. This includes a worked example to demonstrate how this indicator should be calculated.
Rationale
Note: This TSM metric relates to LCRA and LCHO combined
For full details of the RSH requirements and links to TSM Guidance, click here.
This metric was introduced by the English Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) in April 2023 as one of a suite of Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs). It is a regulatory requirement that all Registered Providers (RPs), regardless of size, collect and report the TSMs to their tenants.
For this TSM, dwelling units includes all such units within a property with one or more communal passenger lifts.
In order to report that all LOLER inspection reports have been carried out for a particular property and therefore for the dwelling units in that property providers must ensure that LOLER inspection reports had been carried out for every communal lift within the property and that these were appropriately recorded.
‘LOLER‘ refers to the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998. For the purposes of this TSM, carrying out a LOLER inspection report for a communal passenger lift means meeting the requirements of LOLER in relation to examinations and inspections as if the lift were subject to those requirements. This is irrespective of whether the requirements of LOLER strictly apply or not. This includes the requirements of LOLER in relation to keeping examination and inspection reports up-to-date, but not the completion of remedial actions that may be identified in inspection reports. Although this TSM does not measure remedial actions, providers must of course ensure that these are carried out as required.
A communal passenger lift within a property is a lift provided for use of the occupants of a dwelling unit in common with the occupants of at least one other unit in the property. In this context, a property is a building with at least one such communal lift (e.g. a tower block).
The calculation of this TSM must reflect LOLER inspection reports on all communal passenger lifts in properties in which there are one or more relevant dwelling units owned by the provider. This includes communal passenger lifts which are owned or controlled by a third party. For example, where the provider owns LCRA and/or LCHO units in a property owned by a third-party landlord, then these dwelling units must not be counted within item A of the TSM calculation unless the provider had obtained evidence or otherwise made sure that LOLER inspection reports had been carried out for every communal passenger lift in the property. Dwelling units must not be double counted in either part A or B of the TSM calculation. Any vacant LCRA or LCHO dwelling units within each property must be included within the calculation of this TSM.
This TSM must reflect the compliance position at the end of each reporting year.
Definition
The percentage of dwelling units within properties with communal passenger lifts for which all required lift safety (LOLER) inspection reports have been completed and recorded at the end of the reporting period.
This includes all LCRA and LCHO homes within buildings that have one or more communal passenger lifts. A property is only counted as compliant where all required inspections for every lift serving the property have been carried out.
Where evidence of completed inspections (including those carried out by third parties) is not available, the dwelling units within that property should be counted as non-compliant.
Formula
Divided by
B. Number of dwelling units owned within properties with communal passenger lifts as at year end.
Multiplied by 100.
Worked Example
The metric would therefore be calculated as:
BS05 = (A * 100)/B
Or in this case:
BS05 = (140 * 100) /150
BS05 = 93.33%