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No matter what type of business you run, if it operates over more than one floor, you will have to consider how to move people and goods between floors. Floor lifts, whether dumbwaiters, service lifts, or heavy goods lifts, excel at streamlining the movement of goods and people within your premises. As we explain below, they can be used in a diverse range of businesses.

Moving From Floor To Floor

Whether you run a hotel, restaurant, retail store, or office, people will move throughout your building while it is open. Enabling the smooth transition between floors cannot only help you provide more accessible use of your building to occupants, but it can also help avoid bottlenecks on staircases, which can be a safety hazard.

What Businesses Can Benefit From A Floor Lift?

Below, we take a look at just some of the businesses that might see some improvement from installing a lift within their premises.

Restaurants And Bars

In order to streamline food and drink deliveries from kitchen and bar to dining areas, a lift can be a great choice. It can help to reduce the risk of spills and accidents while transporting gods up and down stairs, and can also help reduce staff fatigue. The swift movement between floors helps maintain food temperature and freshness and can also improve the speed and efficiency of your service, which will benefit your customers.

Hospitals And Healthcare Operations

Most hospitals have floor lifts for a variety of reasons, including transporting patients, medical supplies and bed linen. Lifts can also transport time-sensitive material between floors, such as blood test results and paperwork, which could help improve patient care. In addition, the ability to minimise manual handling risk for staff will reduce the potential for injuries.

Retail Stores

Keeping shelves stocked is vital if you run a retail business, and your staff are likely to partake in restocking during the working day. Allowing them to use a good lift for this purpose will not only reduce the risk of injury from carrying items up and down stairs, but it will also aid in the efficiency of restocking and ensure that this process is handled quickly and effectively.

Libraries

Large libraries with areas that contain sensitive materials may benefit from a lift with limited access to certain floors. This will help ensure that delicate materials are only handled by those authorised to do so. Not only this, but it will help to safely transport documents and books between floors and allow for more accessible entry for those with disabilities. 

Office Buildings

No matter how small or large your office is, if it is over more than one floor, it is likely that you will need to move office supplies and files between floors. Not only can installing accommodate your employees who may have mobility challenges, but it can also improve security via access control to specific floors and optimised space utilisation. For example, some operations install a mezzanine floor with a lift to keep filing secure and reduce floor space during the main office.

Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

Fall prevention is vital in care homes and assisted living facilities. Being able to move between floors by lift rather than stairs can help reduce the risk of elderly or mobility-challenged patients suffering accidents between floors.

Not only this, but it can also help facilitate a calm and comfortable environment for the residents.

Simply put, many different types of businesses can benefit from installing a lift. Whether you opt for a goods/attendant lift, a lift for personnel, or a dumbwaiter, you will soon see an improvement in the safety and efficiency of people and goods flowing through your business.