Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998

These Regulations (often abbreviated to LOLER) place duties on people and companies who own, operate or have control over lifting equipment. This includes all businesses and organisations whose employees use lifting equipment, whether owned by them or not. In most cases, lifting equipment is also work equipment so the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) will also apply (including inspection and maintenance). All lifting operations involving lifting equipment must be properly planned by a competent person, appropriately supervised and carried out in a safe manner.

LOLER also requires that all equipment used for lifting is fit for purpose, appropriate for the task, suitably marked and, in many cases, subject to statutory periodic 'thorough examination'. Records must be kept of all thorough examinations and any defects found must be reported to both the person responsible for the equipment and the relevant enforcing authority.

For further information please visit the HSE website below:

www.hse.gov.uk/work-equipment-machinery/loler.htm

Thorough Examination

A Thorough Examination is the name given to the mandatory inspection required by law to ensure that the mechanical parts of a lift truck are in safe working order. It is roughly equivalent to the MOT for cars.

Work equipment must receive a Thorough Examination at least once a year. However, examinations could be required more often depending on your type of truck.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) states:

"Thorough examination of industrial lift trucks is required under health and safety law: LOLER 1998, which covers lifting equipment, and PUWER 1998, which deals with all other safety-related items, such as brakes, steering and tyres. Your regular inspections as part of a preventive maintenance scheme or scheduled service are not a thorough examination."

For more information please visit:

www.thoroughexamination.org

The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme

CHAS helps clients (buyers) and contractors (suppliers) ensure compliance across the different areas of risk management, and mitigate risks across the supply chain. We offer accreditation schemes that can help businesses achieve compliance, mitigate supply chain risks and support efficient supply chain management.

With the new Common Assessment Standard, we can review all aspects of your risk management policies in a single annual audit. And as one of the founders of Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP), CHAS is committed to setting health and safety benchmarks that drive industries forward and make the world of work a safer place.

Find out more here:

www.chas.co.uk

City & Guilds

Our formal qualifications include: City and guilds NPTC cs 30, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41, 47. Brushwood chipper operations, Emergency first aid, Utility arb UA1, UA2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3. and our arborists hold valid CSCS cards and are fully CRB checked.

For more information, please visit:

www.cityandguilds.com