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Stuck in a lift?
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the fear of lifts and they have to use the stairs all the time, might live on the tenth floor.
Strange but true.
Accident books are too stop things happen again.Like if someone got trapped in there for ten days and died .
The Police can say well you knew it was faulty it was in the accident book.
I would have thought any company that has a lift and does not know someone is stuck in there for 10 days certainly wouldn't have an accident book.
The police wouldn't say anything. That would be a matter for the Health & Safety Executive to investigate and prosecute if necessary.
Leaving fantasy land and going back to the OP's scenario, How would logging this incident in the accident book, where there has been no injuries prevent this from happening again? Mechanical devices breakdown, even if the maintenance schedules are followed.0 -
the fear of lifts and they have to use the stairs all the time, might live on the tenth floor.
Strange but true.
Accident books are too stop things happen again.Like if someone got trapped in there for ten days and died .
The Police can say well you knew it was faulty it was in the accident book.
Why would you call Sting?
I only say that as you cant mean the actual emergency service Police for getting stuck in a lift??0 -
duty of care is a criminal offence and you can done for manslaughter h and saftey lawAlanCarter wrote: »Accident books are for recoding injuries. Was there one?
Why would the police deal with someone trapped in a lift for 10 days? It would happen, firstly the Fire Service would be called and is not a criminal offence for a lift to break down.0 -
if it was the second time it happen I meanpowerful_Rogue wrote: »I would have thought any company that has a lift and does not know someone is stuck in there for 10 days certainly wouldn't have an accident book.
The police wouldn't say anything. That would be a matter for the Health & Safety Executive to investigate and prosecute if necessary.
Leaving fantasy land and going back to the OP's scenario, How would logging this incident in the accident book, where there has been no injuries prevent this from happening again? Mechanical devices breakdown, even if the maintenance schedules are followed.
someone else got stuck in a school lift at half term and died. And if the first time ,the op recorded the incident in the accident book. then they would be prosecuted for manslaughter.
by as you say health and safety (sorry my mistake) and not the police
sorry for going on a tangent.0 -
well that escalated quickly from a possible 20 minute bit of inconvenience being stuck in a lift to someone dieing and manslaughter charges possibly being brought.0
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if it was the second time it happen I mean
someone else got stuck in a school lift at half term and died. And if the first time ,the op recorded the incident in the accident book. then they would be prosecuted for manslaughter.
by as you say health and safety (sorry my mistake) and not the police
sorry for going on a tangent.
Enlighten me.
OP records this in the accident book. Two days later someone else gets trapped in the lift. What do they die of in 20 minutes for a potential manslaughter charge to be hanging over them?0 -
Why would you even worry, 20 mins and then rescued. Problem solved, move on0
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powerful_Rogue wrote: »Enlighten me.
OP records this in the accident book. Two days later someone else gets trapped in the lift. What do they die of in 20 minutes for a potential manslaughter charge to be hanging over them?
starvation, dehydration, boredom, many things.....0 -
Probably "trauma and stress" with "sleepless nights" and "lifetime fear of lifts" thrown in for added effect
Choo Choo!
If memory serves, stress can only be claimed for in breach of contract situations where the contract is for the provision of pleasure.
If there is no breach of contract, it relies on tort. However fear does not amount to psychiatric injury, nor does feelings of terror, panic or sorrow/grief.
The reason usually quoted is that all of these are normal human emotions. Such as in this case - which speaks of being stuck in a hot and sweaty elevator, having difficulty breathing etc:
http://e-lawresources.co.uk/cases/Reilly-v-Merseyside-Regional-Health-Authority.php
In the judgement it was said:“there must be an identifiable psychiatric condition. The sound policy of the law is that the excitement of a normal human emotion, together with its normal physical consequence, is not compensatable. Here there was no recognisable psychiatric injury, but only normal emotion in the face of a most unpleasant experience. ”You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride0 -
Johnnytwostep wrote: »starvation, dehydration, boredom, many things.....
In 20 minutes?!0
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