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Integrity Lift Compliance

Sector — Care Homes

LOLER Inspections for Care Homes

Almost everything that lifts in a care home lifts a person: the passenger lift, patient hoists, bath hoists, stairlifts and their slings. That puts all of it on the six-monthly LOLER cycle. We examine it together on one visit, work around care routines, send the reports the same day with photographs, and remind you before the next round is due. Mark is enhanced DBS checked.

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What Makes This Sector Different

The compliance pressures specific to care homes

Hoists and slings are the items most often missed

A home can hold a current report for its lift and nothing at all for its hoists. Patient hoists, bath hoists, stand aids, stairlifts and slings all lift people, so all are six-monthly. We list every item on one record with its own next-due date.

The visit has to fit around care

Hoists cannot be taken away while residents need them, and the lift may be the only way to the upper floors. We agree times with the manager, avoid meal times and medication rounds, and keep each item out of use for as short a time as possible. Mark is enhanced DBS checked, and the certificate is available to see on request before the visit.

Inspectors and CQC both look at the records

Examination records for lifts and hoists are part of the evidence a home relies on for CQC inspection as well as health and safety. Same-day reports with photographs, and one record for the whole home, make that evidence easy to produce.

Equipment We Examine

Typical Care Homes Plant

Our Experience Here

Why we say this

Care homes are part of Mark's 26+ years of lift engineering experience.

Who enforces here

It depends on the home. For a CQC-registered home, CQC regulates the safety of residents, including the equipment used in their care, while HSE or the local authority covers staff, visitors and contractors. HSE enforces in homes that provide nursing care and in homes owned or run by a local authority; the local authority enforces in other residential care homes.

Talk to the engineer, not a call handler

Every survey is scoped by an engineer who has worked on this class of plant. If your question is whether a particular machine falls under LOLER, PUWER or both, that is a conversation worth having before you book anything.

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Further reading for care homes duty-holders

How Often Are LOLER Inspections Required?
Six months for equipment that lifts people and for lifting accessories, twelve months for everything else, or in line with a written examination scheme drawn up by a competent person. That is the whole rule. What catches duty-holders out is rarely the interval itself — it is when the clock starts, what resets it, and the examinations that fall outside the cycle altogether.
LOLER Record Keeping: How Long to Keep Your Reports
LOLER 1998 Regulation 11 requires duty-holders to keep records of every Thorough Examination. As a working rule: keep reports for lifting equipment for as long as it stays in service, and for lifting accessories for at least two years.
Will the Examiner Leave My Lift Out of Service?
It is the question duty-holders ask least often and worry about most, and it is the real reason many let their maintenance contractor examine its own work. A thorough examination takes the lift out of normal service deliberately — that is what testing the safety gear means. Getting it back is specific to the installation in front of you rather than to the name on the doors.

Trusted by Critical Estates

Independent. Defensible. Genuinely Endorsed.

SAFed-aligned defect classification, and the endorsement below is a genuine NHS Trust quote — not stock marketing copy.

NHS
NHS
Critical estate passenger lift compliance experience
SK
Skanska
Construction & engineering compliance support
A·B·C
SAFed-Aligned Defect Grading
Defects graded A, B or C to the published SAFed severity scale — a grading standard we follow, not a membership we hold
DBS
Enhanced DBS
Director Mark Crowley holds an enhanced DBS check
NHS Trust Endorsement
“Exceptional response times and thorough documentation. Managing compliance across multiple critical medical estates is complex, but their team makes statutory lift auditing seamless.”
Phillip Nai
Critical Healthcare Estates Manager
Barts Health NHS Trust

Common Questions

Care Homes — Common Questions

Do you carry out LOLER inspections for care homes?

Yes. Care homes are part of Mark's 26+ years of lift engineering experience. We examine the classes of plant listed on this page, and every survey is scoped by an engineer with a background in that equipment.

Hoists and slings are the items most often missed — what does that mean in practice?

A home can hold a current report for its lift and nothing at all for its hoists. Patient hoists, bath hoists, stand aids, stairlifts and slings all lift people, so all are six-monthly. We list every item on one record with its own next-due date.

The visit has to fit around care — what does that mean in practice?

Hoists cannot be taken away while residents need them, and the lift may be the only way to the upper floors. We agree times with the manager, avoid meal times and medication rounds, and keep each item out of use for as short a time as possible. Mark is enhanced DBS checked, and the certificate is available to see on request before the visit.

Inspectors and CQC both look at the records — what does that mean in practice?

Examination records for lifts and hoists are part of the evidence a home relies on for CQC inspection as well as health and safety. Same-day reports with photographs, and one record for the whole home, make that evidence easy to produce.

Are you independent of maintenance contractors?

Yes. We do not sell maintenance, repairs, spares or replacement plant, so a defect recorded in a Report of Thorough Examination is never a quotation in disguise. For a duty-holder presenting compliance evidence to an insurer, a client or the HSE, that separation is worth being able to state plainly.

Request a Care Homes Compliance Survey

Tell us what you have and where. We'll reply within one business hour, and you'll deal with an engineer familiar with care homes.

Already have an asset list or examination schedule? Email it to info@integrityliftcompliance.co.uk and we'll come back with a survey plan rather than ask you to retype it.

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