LOLER: Thorough Examinations For Safety Compliance
Keeping your business compliant and your team safe in the workplace
Material handling and powered access equipment must comply with the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.
This is a legal requirement of PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998). As the owner, it is your responsibility to ensure that your machinery has had a LOLER inspection to confirm that all mechanical parts are compliant and in safe working order.
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What Is A LOLER inspection?
A LOLER inspection – also known as a Thorough Examination – is an examination of lifting equipment in the workplace.
Required by law, it applies to all lifting equipment, such as forklifts, material handling equipment and aerial work platforms. A Thorough Examination ensures that equipment meets the requirements outlined in the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.
Hassle-Free LOLER Throrough Examinations
Our friendly and highly experienced team make getting your LOLER inspection completed a hassle-free experience.
We provide a smooth LOLER Thorough Examination experience for businesses across London, the South-East and East Midlands. Simply make an appointment with us for a time that is convenient for you. We’ll send one of our expert engineers to your work place to carry out the inspection. Upon completion of the examination, our engineer will provide immediate feedback of any serious defects that they have identified. We will then work with you to resolve the issues to ensure your lifting equipment is compliant with LOLER.
LOLER Reports
Upon completion of a Thorough Examination, the examiner will share a written record of the findings with the owner.
The regulations state that the engineer carrying out the inspection is required to inform the owner about any problems in person. Our engineer will provide a LOLER summary and a review of any queries that arose from the examination. They will then proceed to write a full report on your inspection, which you can use for your records.
What Does A LOLER Inspection Check?
A LOLER Thorough Examination checks that your lift trucks, MHE and access equipment meets the following standards:
- Safe design and construction
- Clearly marked for confirmation of safety standards
- Correctly installed upgrades and add-ons
- Safety checks of key functions
- Measure of wear and tear
- Load testing
How Often Does Lifting Equipment Need A LOLER Thorough Examination?
You should have your lifting equipment examined by a competent, qualified engineer regularly to remain compliant with legal standards.
- 6 months for equipment used to lift people. This includes cherry pickers / boom lifts, scissor lifts and other mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs).
- 6 months for all lifting accessories
- 12 months for all other forms of lifting equipment, such as forklift trucks, telehandlers, stackers and reach trucks.
FAQs
The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations cover a wide range of equipment. This inlcudes cranes, forklift trucks, goods and passenger lifts, hoists, mobile elevating work platforms and vehicle inspection platform hoists.
You must have lifting equipment inspected to be lawfully compliant with the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998. It is also required by law to comply with PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998). Thorough Examinations improve health and safety at work. These inspections ensure that lifting equipment is safe to use by you and your employees.
PUWER stands for Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998. These regulations are in place to improve safety in the workplace.
You should get your materials handling equipment and aerial work platforms (AWPs) inspected every 6 – 12 months. For access equipment like boom lifts and scissor lifts, you should have them inspected every 6 months. For materials handling equipment like forklift trucks, you should have them inspected every 6 – 12 months.
The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 state that LOLER Thorough Examinations should be planned, organised and carried out by a “competent person who is qualified to do so”.
LOLER inspections from Hiremech are fully compliant and carried out by our fully-qualified, expert engineers.