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Integrity Lift Compliance

Sector — Facilities Management

LOLER Inspections for Facilities Management

An FM provider carries the duty-holder's compliance risk across sites it does not own, on equipment it did not specify. The practical problem is rarely a single examination — it is holding a consistent standard and a single schedule across a portfolio.

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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 facilities management

One standard across sites you inherited

Portfolios arrive with mixed plant, mixed histories and whatever the previous provider's inspector recorded. A single examining body applying one reporting standard makes a portfolio comparable — and makes the outliers visible.

Independence you can show the client

We do not sell maintenance, repairs or parts, so a defect we record is not a quotation in disguise. For an FM provider presenting compliance evidence to a client, that separation is worth stating plainly.

Examination dates that survive mobilisation

The risk point in FM is contract mobilisation, when statutory dates get lost between providers. We reconstruct the examination position from the plant itself rather than assuming the handover pack is complete.

Equipment We Examine

Typical Facilities Management Plant

Also inspected for facilities management: BMU & Cradle Inspections · Goods Lift Inspections · Scissor Lift Inspections

Our Experience Here

Why we say this

Our FM portfolio case study covers a MEWP and powered access LOLER rollout across a multi-site contract.

Who enforces here

Both, depending on the site. A portfolio of offices and retail units is largely local authority territory; a factory or construction site in the same portfolio is HSE. Worth knowing before a visit, not after.

Facilities Management · London & South East

Standardising MEWP Examinations Across an FM Portfolio

An FM provider running maintenance teams across many buildings accumulates powered access equipment one site at a time. A scissor lift bought for one contract, a vertical mast lift inherited with a building, a trailer-mounted unit shared between sites. Each was compliant when it arrived and each is now examined — or not — according to whatever the local site manager arranged. The portfolio-level position is unknown, which becomes a problem the first time a client asks for evidence across the whole contract rather than for one building.

Read the worked example

Further reading for facilities management duty-holders

LOLER Responsibility: Landlord or Tenant?
LOLER responsibility follows control of the equipment, not ownership of the building. In practice, the freeholder or managing agent is usually the duty-holder for lifts in shared areas, while a tenant can become the duty-holder for lifting equipment they operate exclusively within their own unit.
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.
What Happens If LOLER Expires?
The plant is no longer legally usable, and the cost of a lapse is rarely the examination you did not book. Quarantine the equipment, arrange a thorough examination promptly, and document the steps taken — then resume once a competent person has examined the plant and signed it off.

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

Facilities Management — Common Questions

Do you carry out LOLER inspections for facilities management?

Yes. Our FM portfolio case study covers a MEWP and powered access LOLER rollout across a multi-site contract. We examine the classes of plant listed on this page, and every survey is scoped by an engineer with a background in that equipment.

One standard across sites you inherited — what does that mean in practice?

Portfolios arrive with mixed plant, mixed histories and whatever the previous provider's inspector recorded. A single examining body applying one reporting standard makes a portfolio comparable — and makes the outliers visible.

Independence you can show the client — what does that mean in practice?

We do not sell maintenance, repairs or parts, so a defect we record is not a quotation in disguise. For an FM provider presenting compliance evidence to a client, that separation is worth stating plainly.

Examination dates that survive mobilisation — what does that mean in practice?

The risk point in FM is contract mobilisation, when statutory dates get lost between providers. We reconstruct the examination position from the plant itself rather than assuming the handover pack is complete.

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 Facilities Management 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 facilities management.

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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