Lift and Escalator Industry Association

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First report 18 Jul 2025•Latest report 18 Jul 2025

Reports, concerns and published responses

Reports over time

Reports naming this recipient by issue year.

* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.

Reports: 1
Published responses: 100%
Concerns addressed: 2
Stated actions: 3

Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Lift and Escalator Industry Association linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

18 Jul2025
Coventry and Warwickshire
Concerns raised2
1. Limited awareness of platform-lift risks and hold-to-run device retrofit feasibility
2. Lack of hold-to-run controls on platform lifts
Actions described in response 2
1. Action
  Publish and circulate a safety notice addressing similar latching or automatic controls on lifting platforms from other manufacturers.
2. Action
  Publish and circulate a safety notice addressing Phoenix Lifting Systems platforms with one-touch controls.
Respondent positions 3
1. Position
  Retrofitting hold-to-run controls may not be straightforward or relatively low cost for lifting platforms from manufacturers other than Phoenix.
  Disputes the concern
1. Position
  Lifting platform owners should ask their maintenance contractors to establish whether hold-to-run control modifications are feasible.
  Redirects responsibility
2. Position
  The Health and Safety Executive should issue a warning about risks arising from the absence of hold-to-run devices.
  Redirects responsibility
AI-generated summary

Jacqueline Mary LANGWORTHY · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Report summary

Jacqueline Mary Langworthy, an experienced care assistant, died after becoming trapped and pinned by a stand aid in a descending platform lift; resuscitation was unsuccessful. The principal concerns were that many platform lifts lack hold-to-run controls, these controls may be relatively inexpensive to retrofit, and awareness of the risks and retrofit feasibility is limited.

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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 Lift and Escalator Industry Association; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation
Limited awareness of platform-lift risks and hold-to-run device retrofit feasibility
Wider context from the report
“(1) Many platform lifts still in use in care settings and other premises do not have hold-to-run controls. (2) Evidence was received indicating that such controls can be retrofitted at relatively low cost. (3) There is limited awareness of both the risks posed by the absence of hold-to-run devices and the feasibility of fitting such devices to existing platform lifts. ”
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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 Lift and Escalator Industry Association; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation
Lack of hold-to-run controls on platform lifts
Wider context from the report
“(1) Many platform lifts still in use in care settings and other premises do not have hold-to-run controls. (2) Evidence was received indicating that such controls can be retrofitted at relatively low cost. (3) There is limited awareness of both the risks posed by the absence of hold-to-run devices and the feasibility of fitting such devices to existing platform lifts. ”
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Publish and circulate a safety notice addressing similar latching or automatic controls on lifting platforms from other manufacturers.

Verbatim wording from the response
“Since our earlier letter and publication of the safety notice on behalf of Phoenix Lifting Systems, we have worked with our specialist committees and understand that there might be lifting platforms installed from other manufacturers with latching/automatic platform controls. We published a further safety notice on 12 November which we circulated to our members and which is on our website at: https://www.leia.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/00163-12-November-2025-lifting-platforms-with-one-touch-platform-controls.pdf”

Source location
Response from Lift & Escalator Industry Association
Page 1 · response
Published 30 July 2025
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Publish and circulate a safety notice addressing Phoenix Lifting Systems platforms with one-touch controls.

Verbatim wording from the response
“Following discussions with Phoenix Lifting Systems, we published a safety notice on our website on 19 August on their behalf which was emailed to our members. This notice is at: https://www.leia.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/00162-18-August-2025-Phoenix-Lifting-Systems-Safety-Information-Lifting-platforms-with-one-touch-platform-controls.pdf.”

Source location
Response from Lift & Escalator Industry Association
Page 1 · response
Published 30 July 2025
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How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Retrofitting hold-to-run controls may not be straightforward or relatively low cost for lifting platforms from manufacturers other than Phoenix.

Verbatim wording from the response
“(2) “Evidence was received indicating that such controls can be retrofitted at relatively low cost”.”

Source location
Response from Lift & Escalator Industry Association
Page 2 · response
Published 30 July 2025
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How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Lifting platform owners should ask their maintenance contractors to establish whether hold-to-run control modifications are feasible.

Verbatim wording from the response
“Please see our safety notice of 12 November which provides advice to lifting platform owners to seek the assistance of their lifting platform maintenance contractors to establish feasibility of making such changes. While we understand that in the case of unmodified lifting platforms manufactured by Phoenix Lifting Systems the modification might be straight forward, this might not be case for other manufacturers hence our advice.”

Source location
Response from Lift & Escalator Industry Association
Page 2 · response
Published 30 July 2025
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How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
The Health and Safety Executive should issue a warning about risks arising from the absence of hold-to-run devices.

Verbatim wording from the response
“We remain of the view that a warning issued by the HSE on such risks would be very valuable.”

Source location
Response from Lift & Escalator Industry Association
Page 2 · response
Published 30 July 2025
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Reports, concerns and published responses

Reports over time

Concerns raised2

Limited awareness of platform-lift risks and hold-to-run device retrofit feasibility

Lack of hold-to-run controls on platform lifts

Actions described in response An action is something this recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.2

Respondent positions A position is what this recipient says about the concern when it does not describe a specific action.3

Actions described in response 2

Respondent positions 3