LOLER Testing

Here at Wilfred Scruton Ltd we are an approved test centre for LOLER examinations at both depots. 

Lifting equipment must be tested annually in accordance with the HSE’s ‘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. 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.

Lifting equipment must be thoroughly examined in a number of situations, including:

• before first use (unless there is a valid Declaration of Conformity made less than 12 months earlier)
• where it depends on installation, or re-installation / assembly at another site
• where it is exposed to conditions causing deterioration, liable to result in danger

Records of thorough examinations should be made and, where defects are identified, they should be reported to both the person using the equipment (and to any person from whom it has been hired or leased), and the relevant enforcing authority (HSE for industrial workplaces; local authorities for most other workplaces).

To book a LOLER test please contact us on 01262 470221 (Foxholes) or 01757 249799 (Riccall). For further information on LOLER testing along with other health & safety matters please visit http://www.hse.gov.uk/work-equipment-machinery/loler.htm