Handling Equipment
Vacuum lifters, manipulators, lifting trolleys and bespoke handling rigs. Purpose-built plant is frequently assumed to sit outside LOLER because it does not look like a crane — if it lifts a load, it does not.
We Sell No Equipment — So We Cannot Compete With You
LOLER Examination for Equipment Suppliers and Dealers
For dealers, distributors and installers whose customers need the plant examined after it is delivered. Every machine you supply that lifts a load or a person carries a statutory examination duty for the buyer from the moment it goes into service, and most suppliers have no inspection arm. We examine and report. We sell no equipment, hire, spares or repairs, and we do not approach your customers.
26+ Years Hands-On Engineering Experience
Independent of Maintenance Contracts
7 Days a Week, 6am to 6pm
Same-Day Reports, With Photos
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.
Written and reviewed by Mark Crowley, Director, Integrity Lift Compliance Ltd — 26+ years of hands-on lifting equipment engineering. NHS estates, commercial property and industrial lifting compliance.
Engineering Approach
What our supplier examination programme delivers
Independent, defensible statutory examination by an engineer with deep hands-on plant experience.
- We supply no equipment of any kind, so a defect we record can never be a quotation for a replacement — and we are not a competitor you are handing a customer list to
- We do not approach your customers. Reports are issued to whoever you nominate, in your format or ours
- Examination after installation or assembly on site, which is the duty most often missed on newly delivered plant — Regulation 9 requires equipment whose safety depends on its installation to be examined before it is put into service
- Six-monthly for anything that lifts people and for all lifting accessories, twelve-monthly for goods-only plant, tracked from your delivery date rather than from whenever somebody remembers
- We hold the customer's equipment register and next-due dates and contact them before the examination falls due, so kit you supplied does not lapse and come back to you as a complaint
- Digital Report of Thorough Examination with photographs, issued the same day against a trade convention of 28 days
How it works for suppliers
You supply the equipment; we look after the examinations:
- You tell us about the delivery: customer, site, equipment and delivery date
- We examine before first use: where the equipment's safety depends on how it was installed or assembled
- Reports go where you say: to you, to the customer, or both, the same day with photographs
- We keep the dates: and remind the customer before each examination is due
We sell no equipment, hire, spares or repairs, and we do not approach your customers.
The examination most often missed
LOLER 1998 Regulation 9 requires equipment whose safety depends on its installation to be thoroughly examined after installation and before it is put into service. On newly delivered plant that examination is the one most often missed, because everyone assumes new means certified.
LOLER and second-hand lifting equipmentAssets We Examine
Asset classes covered under our supplier examination programme.
Hoists & Chain Blocks
Electric and manual hoists, chain blocks and runway systems, including units supplied loose for a customer's own installation.
Platform Lifts & Accessibility Plant
Platform lifts and stairlifts supplied into commercial premises. They carry people, so they sit on the six-monthly cycle rather than the twelve-monthly one that buyers often assume.
Lifting Accessories
Slings, chains, shackles, eyebolts and below-the-hook tackle at six-monthly intervals. The shortest interval you supply, the lowest value per item, and the one customers lose track of fastest.
Forklifts & Telehandlers
Counterbalance trucks, reach trucks and telehandlers — twelve-monthly as supplied, six-monthly from the moment a work platform or man-cage is fitted.
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
Areas We Cover
Independent lift and LOLER inspections from our base in Medway, across London, Kent and the South East, for offices, flats, care homes, warehouses and industrial sites.
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Essex & the East
Common Questions
Questions from Equipment Suppliers
Will you compete with us?
No. We supply no equipment, hire, spares or repairs, so we are not a competitor you are handing a customer list to.
Will you approach our customers?
No. Reports go to whoever you nominate and we do not market to your customers.
Does new equipment need examining before use?
Usually, yes. LOLER requires a thorough examination before equipment is first used, unless it is new with a declaration of conformity made in the twelve months before it goes into service, or comes from another business with evidence of its last thorough examination. Where its safety depends on how it is installed or assembled, it also needs one after installation and again at each new site, whatever paperwork it came with.
How quickly are reports issued?
The same day, digitally, with photographs.
Can reports be in our format?
Yes, or ours, with everything LOLER Schedule 1 requires.
Do you remind customers when examinations are due?
Yes, so equipment you supplied does not lapse and come back to you as a complaint.
What areas do you cover?
London, Kent and the South East.
Request a Survey
Tell us what needs inspecting and where. We'll reply within one business hour.
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.
Survey Request Form
Further reading on LOLER examination for equipment suppliers
Does Second-Hand Lifting Equipment Need Examining?
It depends on what comes with it. Used equipment bought from another business can go into service on its existing examination if it arrives with physical evidence that its last thorough examination was carried out, and its safety does not depend on how it is installed. Without that evidence, as with many auction lots and private sales, it needs a thorough examination before it does any work. Many buyers have one done anyway, because the seller's report describes the machine before it was moved.
LOLER 1998 Regulation by Regulation
Almost every conversation about LOLER is a conversation about Regulation 9 — the thorough examination — because that is the bit somebody sells you. It is one of eight duties that actually apply to you, and it is not the one most prosecutions turn on. This sets out what each regulation requires and where people come unstuck.
Do Slings and Chains Need Examining as Often as the Lift?
Lifting accessories are examined every six months, not every twelve. That surprises people, because accessories do not lift persons and the six-monthly limb is usually explained as the one for passenger-carrying plant. Accessories are on it in their own right, and they are the items most often missed entirely.
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