Action stations

If you are like me, getting into a lift doesn’t rate a second thought – except when something goes wrong. Consider these examples:

• In 2010, a UK woman going about her normal day was crushed to death by a faulty lift at her gym.• The same year, the then 80-year-old world famous racing car driver Sterling Moss fell down a lift shaft when the doors opened prematurely, breaking his leg, a foot and several vertebrae.

Although millions of lifts operate globally and billions of people are transported every day without failure, there are