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Integrity Lift Compliance

Sector — Construction

LOLER Inspections for Construction & Engineering

Site plant moves, gets reassembled and changes hands mid-project — and each of those events can trigger a statutory examination in its own right, separately from the six- or twelve-month cycle. On construction sites, a relocation is one of the most commonly missed triggers.

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Certificate expired or lift out of compliance? You're exposed to enforcement action, and your insurance may not respond, until it's resolved. What to do.

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What Makes This Sector Different

The compliance pressures specific to construction and engineering

Relocation triggers an examination

LOLER Regulation 9(2) requires a thorough examination after equipment is installed or reassembled at a new site, wherever its safety depends on how it was installed. Plant arriving from another site with a valid-looking certificate is not automatically compliant here.

Hired plant is still your duty

Hiring equipment does not transfer the duty to examine it while you are using it. Hire documentation is frequently thinner than the site assumes, and it is the user who is exposed.

Accessories outnumber the machines

Slings, shackles, chains and eyebolts are lifting accessories on the six-month cycle. They are cheap, numerous, easy to substitute informally, and the most common gap we find in a site register.

Equipment We Examine

Typical Construction Plant

Also inspected for construction and engineering: Scissor Lift Inspections · Harness & Fall Arrest Inspections · Abrasive Wheel Inspections

Our Experience Here

Why we say this

We provide construction and engineering compliance support to Skanska.

Who enforces here

HSE. Construction sites are HSE-enforced, and lifting plant is a standing item on a site visit.

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 construction and engineering 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.
Who Can Carry Out LOLER Inspections?
A competent person: someone with the practical and theoretical knowledge to find defects in that class of equipment and judge how much they matter, and who is independent enough to say so. LOLER names no qualification, no register and no licence, which puts the burden of judging competence on the duty-holder appointing them.
Can Equipment Be Used Without LOLER?
No. Lifting equipment that falls within LOLER must be thoroughly examined before first use where required and then at the set intervals. Once an examination date has passed there is no current evidence the equipment is safe, there is no grace period, and it should be taken out of use until it has been examined.

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Construction & engineering compliance support
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Defects graded A, B or C to the published SAFed severity scale — a grading standard we follow, not a membership we hold
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“Exceptional response times and thorough documentation. Managing compliance across multiple critical medical estates is complex, but their team makes statutory lift auditing seamless.”
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Common Questions

Construction & Engineering — Common Questions

Do you carry out LOLER inspections for construction and engineering?

Yes. We provide construction and engineering compliance support to Skanska. We examine the classes of plant listed on this page, and every survey is scoped by an engineer with a background in that equipment.

Relocation triggers an examination — what does that mean in practice?

LOLER Regulation 9(2) requires a thorough examination after equipment is installed or reassembled at a new site, wherever its safety depends on how it was installed. Plant arriving from another site with a valid-looking certificate is not automatically compliant here.

Hired plant is still your duty — what does that mean in practice?

Hiring equipment does not transfer the duty to examine it while you are using it. Hire documentation is frequently thinner than the site assumes, and it is the user who is exposed.

Accessories outnumber the machines — what does that mean in practice?

Slings, shackles, chains and eyebolts are lifting accessories on the six-month cycle. They are cheap, numerous, easy to substitute informally, and the most common gap we find in a site register.

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 Construction 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 construction and engineering.

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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