LECS UK CEO Honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award
LECS UK is delighted to announce that our CEO, Dave Cooper MBE, has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Safety Council. The prestigious award recognises Dave's outstanding and longstanding contribution to [...]
NHS Lifts, NHS Capital projects, NHS Compliance & Confidence: Are You Covered?
NHS Trusts and healthcare facilities managers face a unique challenge: keeping patient lifts safe, compliant, and operational—without disrupting care. With more than 2,000 hospital buildings across England were built before the foundation of the NHS [...]
Escalator – A hazard without status
LECS UK's CEO Dave Cooper began campaigning for statutory inspections of escalators 34 years ago and since 1998 has been calling for escalators to be included under the UK’s Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations [...]
NHS and Healthcare – Authorising engineer (AE) for lifts
What is an authorising engineer for lifts? An NHS Authorising Engineer (Lifts) (AE) is an independent chartered engineer, like engineers at LECS UK, appointed by a healthcare organisation or NHS Trust to oversee the safety, compliance, [...]
Brake Failures on Lifts
Abstract. Brake failures affect many types of equipment and while efforts have been made in standards to improve the outcome of a brake failure they still occur. The consequences of a failure can range from a [...]
🎉 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲! 🎓
Sophie Brown, our amazing apprentice, has just graduated from University of Northampton’s Lift and Escalator Technology Foundation course! Sophie continues to pursue her NVQ3 (on the way to NVQ4)— building even more knowledge and hands-on [...]
