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Integrity Lift Compliance

Sector — Hotels & Leisure

LOLER Inspections for Hotels & Leisure

A hotel cannot close a lift at check-out. It also runs a class of lifting equipment most estates teams never think of as lifting equipment at all — the dumbwaiter between kitchen and restaurant, and the hoist at the side of the pool.

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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 hotels and leisure venues

Pool and spa hoists lift people

A poolside hoist puts a guest into the water, so it sits on LOLER's six-monthly cycle. It is routinely held on a leisure-maintenance schedule rather than a statutory examination register, which is not the same duty and will not satisfy an inspector.

Kitchen service lifts are lifting equipment

Dumbwaiters running between kitchen, restaurant and cellar are goods lifts under LOLER on a twelve-monthly cycle. They are small, they are behind a service door, and they are one of the most consistently missing items from a hotel's register.

An out-of-service lift closes your accessible rooms

Accessible bedrooms above ground floor depend on the passenger lift working. Beyond the LOLER duty, that engages the Equality Act 2010 — which is why we schedule hotel examinations around occupancy rather than against it.

Equipment We Examine

Typical Hotels & Leisure Plant

Our Experience Here

Why we say this

Hotel and leisure sites are part of Mark's 26+ years of lifting equipment engineering experience, alongside the commercial property portfolios described on our about page.

Who enforces here

The local authority. Hotels, catering and leisure premises are council-enforced, so your pool hoist and passenger lift records are an environmental health matter rather than an HSE one.

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 hotels and leisure venues 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.
UK Lift Compliance: The Complete Legal Framework
Lift compliance in the UK isn't governed by a single regulation. Safety in use comes from LOLER 1998 and PUWER 1998, access from the Equality Act 2010, and the BS EN 81-20/81-50 standards set the design baseline new lifts are built to — four frameworks that do different jobs and are easily confused.
What Is a LOLER Inspection?
A LOLER inspection — properly a thorough examination — is a systematic engineering assessment of lifting equipment by a competent person, to establish whether it is safe to remain in service. It is not a visual walk-round and it is not a service visit. This is what one actually involves.

Trusted by Critical Estates

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

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Critical estate passenger lift compliance experience
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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
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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.”
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Critical Healthcare Estates Manager
Barts Health NHS Trust

Common Questions

Hotels & Leisure — Common Questions

Do you carry out LOLER inspections for hotels and leisure venues?

Yes. Hotel and leisure sites are part of Mark's 26+ years of lifting equipment engineering experience, alongside the commercial property portfolios described on our about page. We examine the classes of plant listed on this page, and every survey is scoped by an engineer with a background in that equipment.

Pool and spa hoists lift people — what does that mean in practice?

A poolside hoist puts a guest into the water, so it sits on LOLER's six-monthly cycle. It is routinely held on a leisure-maintenance schedule rather than a statutory examination register, which is not the same duty and will not satisfy an inspector.

Kitchen service lifts are lifting equipment — what does that mean in practice?

Dumbwaiters running between kitchen, restaurant and cellar are goods lifts under LOLER on a twelve-monthly cycle. They are small, they are behind a service door, and they are one of the most consistently missing items from a hotel's register.

An out-of-service lift closes your accessible rooms — what does that mean in practice?

Accessible bedrooms above ground floor depend on the passenger lift working. Beyond the LOLER duty, that engages the Equality Act 2010 — which is why we schedule hotel examinations around occupancy rather than against it.

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 Hotels & Leisure 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 hotels and leisure venues.

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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