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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Barking Riverside to Dagenham

Passenger Lift Inspections in Barking and Dagenham

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Barking and Dagenham. The borough is building one of London's largest new neighbourhoods at Barking Riverside, alongside new towers in Barking town centre and long-established estates and industry in Dagenham.

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The passenger-lift stock in Barking and Dagenham

Barking Riverside is a new district of residential blocks, most with modern passenger lifts. Barking town centre has new high-rise blocks around the station. Dagenham and Becontree are mostly low-rise housing, with lifts in council blocks, retirement housing and care homes. Dagenham Dock and the riverside have industrial and logistics sites with goods lifts and passenger lifts.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Every passenger lift is six-monthly. On new developments still being built out, lifts come into service block by block, each on its own six-monthly cycle from the day it goes into use. We keep the record so new blocks are added as they open.

Areas covered around Barking and Dagenham

Passenger lifts carry people, so the statutory interval is six months — not twelve.

  • Barking
  • Barking Riverside
  • Dagenham
  • Becontree
  • Chadwell Heath
  • Thames View
  • Dagenham Dock
  • Castle Green

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Barking and Dagenham — common questions

A new block's lift has just been handed over. When is the first inspection due?

A new lift handed over with its declaration of conformity does not normally need a thorough examination before first use; the first periodic examination is due within six months of it going into service. If there is no declaration, or the lift has been used or altered before handover, it needs examining before use. We can take over from handover and keep the dates from then on.

Do you cover Dagenham's industrial sites too?

Yes: passenger lifts, goods lifts, forklifts and other lifting equipment, all on one record with each item on its correct interval.

Further reading

How Often Does a Passenger Lift Need Inspecting?
Every six months. The confusion is almost never about the number — it is about whether the maintenance visits already cover it. They do not. A service contract and a thorough examination are different things done by different people for different reasons, and having one does not satisfy the duty for the other.
Will the Examiner Leave My Lift Out of Service?
It is the question duty-holders ask least often and worry about most, and it is the real reason many let their maintenance contractor examine its own work. A thorough examination takes the lift out of normal service deliberately — that is what testing the safety gear means. Getting it back is specific to the installation in front of you rather than to the name on the doors.
Can My Lift Company Carry Out the LOLER Inspection?
It is one of the most common questions duty-holders ask, and the honest answer is not a flat no. LOLER does not name a prohibited person. What it requires is a competent person, and HSE expects that person to be sufficiently independent and impartial to make objective decisions — which is where a maintenance provider examining its own work runs into difficulty. This is about the structure of the arrangement, not about anyone's honesty.

Book a passenger lift examination in Barking and Dagenham

Tell us what needs inspecting and where — company name, contact details and a note on the equipment. 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.

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