Lapsed Passenger Lifts
Priority statutory examination of office, residential and hospital passenger lifts whose six-monthly certificate has expired.
Lapsed Certificate — Next Working Day in London
Overdue LOLER Inspections in London
For lifts and lifting equipment whose LOLER examination has lapsed. Next working day for an overdue passenger lift in London, and usually the same week for other equipment, with the report and photographs issued the same day so you can show the equipment is back in compliance.
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 overdue LOLER inspection programme delivers
Independent, defensible statutory examination by an engineer with deep hands-on plant experience.
- Next working day attendance for an overdue passenger lift in London, and same-week scheduling for other equipment. If a date cannot be met you are told on the call
- Defensible Report of Thorough Examination — LOLER 1998 Reg 10
- Practical guidance on quarantine, isolation and remedial pathways
- Out-of-hours and weekend slots subject to availability
- Interval tracking afterwards — we hold the equipment register and next-due dates and contact you before the next examination is due, so a lapse does not repeat
- Independent of your maintenance contractor — no conflict of interest
- Reports flag any PUWER 1998 maintenance-duty exposure created alongside the lapsed LOLER certificate
What to do now
If an examination is overdue, there is no current evidence the equipment is safe. The practical steps are:
- Stop using it: take the equipment out of use until it has been examined, or as a minimum stop anyone riding in or on it
- Look for the last report: the maintenance company or previous managing agent may hold it
- Book an examination: call and say it is overdue; it is treated as urgent
- Tell whoever needs to know: insurers and building users, so nobody is caught out
Next working day for an overdue passenger lift in London, and usually the same week for other equipment. If a date cannot be met you are told on the call.
Stopping it happening again
Most lapses happen because nobody owns the date: a managing agent changes, a maintenance contract ends, or equipment arrives with a building and never goes on a register. After the examination we keep the record and next-due date and remind you before the next one, so it does not lapse again.
What happens when a LOLER examination expires?What you get after the inspection
A Report of Thorough Examination with everything LOLER Schedule 1 requires — including the equipment identified, the date examined, its safe working load, any defect with what must be done and by when, and the date the next examination is due — with each defect graded by severity. On top of that:
- Same-day report: issued digitally on the day of the inspection, not weeks later
- Photographs: of what was inspected and of any defect, in every report as standard
- Records and reminders: we keep the record on file and remind you before the next one falls due
If anything is not safe to use, you are told in writing before we leave. Because we sell no repairs, a defect on the report is never a quotation in disguise.
Assets We Examine
Asset classes covered under our overdue LOLER inspection programme.
Overdue Forklift Trucks
Same-week examination of counterbalance, reach and pallet handlers operating outside their statutory examination window.
Lapsed MEWPs
Priority LOLER examination of scissor lifts, booms and cherry pickers identified as out of statutory date.
Overdue BMU & Cradle
Emergency engineering inspection of façade access plant where the six-monthly certificate has lapsed.
Expired Lifting Accessories
Rapid auditing of rigging tackle, slings, eyebolts and shackles past their six-monthly examination interval.
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 LOLER inspections across London.
Common Questions
Overdue LOLER Inspection FAQs
Can I keep using equipment while the examination is overdue?
You should not. Without a current examination there is no evidence it is safe, and using it is a breach of LOLER. Take it out of use, or at the very least stop anyone riding in or on it, until it has been examined.
How quickly can you attend?
Next working day for an overdue passenger lift in London, and usually the same week for other equipment. If a date cannot be met you are told on the call, not afterwards.
We cannot find the last report. What now?
Treat the equipment as unexamined. Ask the maintenance company and any previous managing agent for a copy, but book an examination rather than waiting.
Does an overdue examination affect our insurance?
It can. Many policies require statutory examinations to be current, and an insurer may question a claim involving equipment without one. Tell your insurer or broker once it has been examined.
Is an overdue examination harder or more expensive?
The examination itself is the same. Lapsed equipment sometimes has more defects because nobody has looked at it for longer, and those go on the report with dates for repair.
How soon do I get the report?
The same day, with photographs, so you can show the equipment is back in compliance straight away.
How do we stop it happening again?
We keep the record and next-due date for every item we examine and remind you before it falls due.
Request an Emergency Compliance Survey
Submit your overdue plant details below. We'll treat it as a priority and contact you 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.
Emergency Compliance Survey
Further reading on overdue LOLER inspections
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.
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.
LOLER Certificate: What People Mean and What You Actually Get
Almost everyone calls it a LOLER certificate. LOLER 1998 never calls it that — the document is a Report of Thorough Examination. The distinction matters, because a 'certificate' implies a pass and a report does not.
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