Concerns raised 8 Lack of statutory minimum requirements for lift servicing View source Lack of a care home system for reviewing and passing lift examination details to the servicing company View source Lack of formal minimum qualification standards for lift engineers View source Lack of clarity about informing engineers of and following up regulatory lift examination requirements View source Electronic lift servicing appointment systems lacking checklists View source Failure of home inspections to identify unacted-on regulatory lift examination faults View source Failure to read, act on, and escalate regulatory lift examination findings View source Failure to require lift servicing and repair engineers to obtain regulatory examination reports View source See 5 more concerns
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Kenneth Roy Bardsley · Prevention of Future Deaths report
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Kenneth Roy Bardsley died at Salford Royal Hospital on 30 January 2017 from multiple injuries sustained as a passenger in a lift that malfunctioned at Serendipity Care Home. The inquest concluded that his accidental death was contributed to by failure of the lift’s interior door mechanism. Concerns included gaps in lift-engineer qualification requirements, failures to read and act on regulatory examination findings, unclear communication and follow-up processes, and insufficient systems for lift servicing and examination records.
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of statutory minimum requirements for lift servicing
Wider context from the report “7. That the lift company Lancs and Cumbria Lifts had abandoned their old paper checklists and introduced an electronic appointment system. However that system did not include an electronic checklist. One had now been introduced. It was unclear if other companies have checklists and if so how consistent are they. The inquest heard that there was no statutory minimum expectation about the requirements of a lift service .
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of a care home system for reviewing and passing lift examination details to the servicing company
Wider context from the report “5. That Serendipity Care Home did not have a system in place to ensure details from the lift examinations were read; considered and passed on to the lift servicing company ;
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of formal minimum qualification standards for lift engineers
Wider context from the report “1. The inquest heard that there are no formal requirements for a minimum standard of qualification for people to be lift engineers . In effect, anyone can advertise themselves as a lift engineer/maintenance company ;
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Lack of clarity about informing engineers of and following up regulatory lift examination requirements
Wider context from the report “3. During the inquest evidence was given that within the specific lift company in this case and more widely, there was a lack of clarity as to how engineers should be made aware and follow up requirements made by engineers carrying out the regulatory lift examinations ;
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Electronic lift servicing appointment systems lacking checklists
Wider context from the report “7. That the lift company Lancs and Cumbria Lifts had abandoned their old paper checklists and introduced an electronic appointment system. However that system did not include an electronic checklist . One had now been introduced. It was unclear if other companies have checklists and if so how consistent are they. The inquest heard that there was no statutory minimum expectation about the requirements of a lift service.
” Open source report × Source evidence
How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Failure of home inspections to identify unacted-on regulatory lift examination faults
Wider context from the report “4. In inspections of the home, the CQC did not pick up that there were faults identified in the regulatory examination that had not been acted upon ;
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Failure to read, act on, and escalate regulatory lift examination findings
Wider context from the report “2. The evidence given to the inquest was that there was a gap in the system which meant that regulatory lift examinations could take place but not be read or acted upon , with no escalation process ;
” Open source report × Source evidence
How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Lancs & Cumbria Lifts (UK) Ltd; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Failure to require lift servicing and repair engineers to obtain regulatory examination reports
Wider context from the report “6. That the lift company Lancs and Cumbria engineers carrying out serving/repairs were not expected to ask to see the regulatory examination reports ;
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