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Sector — Logistics

LOLER Inspections for Logistics & Warehousing

A distribution operation measures downtime in cases per hour. Fleet thorough examination is unavoidable, so the question is how few trucks are off the floor at once and how quickly a defect turns into a decision.

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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 logistics and warehousing

Fleet examinations, not single visits

Examining forty trucks one at a time is the expensive way. We phase fleet examinations so the operation keeps running, and report by fleet so a transport manager can see the whole position rather than forty separate certificates.

Attachments are lifting equipment too

Side-shifters, rotators, bale clamps, jibs and man-baskets are frequently missed. They fall under LOLER in their own right, and a man-basket on a forklift lifts people — which puts it on the six-month cycle.

Loading bay plant sits outside the forklift schedule

Dock levellers, scissor lifts and goods lifts are often on a different register from the truck fleet, or on none at all. They are part of the same duty.

Equipment We Examine

Typical Logistics & Warehousing Plant

Also inspected for logistics and warehousing: Tail Lift Inspections · Scissor Lift Inspections

Our Experience Here

Why we say this

Our 3PL warehouse case study covers a forklift fleet thorough examination cycle.

Who enforces here

Usually the local authority. Storage for wholesale and retail distribution is council-enforced, so an environmental health officer is the one most likely to ask for your fleet's examination records. The main exceptions are warehousing run as part of a transport business and container depots serving a port, airport or railway, which are HSE-enforced.

Logistics / 3PL · Thurrock / M25

Forklift Fleet Examination on a 24/7 Distribution Site

A distribution operation running counterbalance trucks, reach trucks and powered pallet equipment has two problems at once. The first is that the site does not stop, so there is no natural window in which plant is standing idle. The second is that nobody is quite sure what the fleet consists of. Trucks arrive on short-term hire and stay, others go off for repair and come back with a different serial number, attachments get swapped between machines, and the asset register drifts away from reality within a year. An examination programme that works off the register rather than off the yard will miss plant that is in daily use.

Read the worked example

Further reading for logistics and warehousing 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.
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.
What is LOLER?
LOLER is the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998. It applies across Great Britain to lifting equipment used at work, and requires that equipment to be strong and stable enough for the job, properly installed and marked, used in planned lifting operations, and thoroughly examined by a competent person at set intervals: every six months for equipment that lifts people and for lifting accessories, and every twelve months for everything else, unless a written examination scheme sets different ones.

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Common Questions

Logistics & Warehousing — Common Questions

Do you carry out LOLER inspections for logistics and warehousing?

Yes. Our 3PL warehouse case study covers a forklift fleet thorough examination cycle. We examine the classes of plant listed on this page, and every survey is scoped by an engineer with a background in that equipment.

Fleet examinations, not single visits — what does that mean in practice?

Examining forty trucks one at a time is the expensive way. We phase fleet examinations so the operation keeps running, and report by fleet so a transport manager can see the whole position rather than forty separate certificates.

Attachments are lifting equipment too — what does that mean in practice?

Side-shifters, rotators, bale clamps, jibs and man-baskets are frequently missed. They fall under LOLER in their own right, and a man-basket on a forklift lifts people — which puts it on the six-month cycle.

Loading bay plant sits outside the forklift schedule — what does that mean in practice?

Dock levellers, scissor lifts and goods lifts are often on a different register from the truck fleet, or on none at all. They are part of the same duty.

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 Logistics & Warehousing 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 logistics and warehousing.

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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