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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Chatham & Chatham Maritime

Passenger Lift Inspections in Chatham

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Chatham. The town's passenger-lift stock is unusually mixed for its size — high-footfall retail lifts running long hours, campus lifts whose access is governed by the teaching timetable, and newer waterfront residential blocks where the lift is the only practical route to the upper floors.

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The passenger-lift stock in Chatham

Passenger lifts in Chatham sit in three distinct groups. The Pentagon and Dockside retail centres run lifts through trading hours with little scope for daytime isolation. The Universities at Medway campus carries lifts serving accessible routes into teaching space, where examination access is easiest outside term. The Chatham Maritime and Chatham Waters residential blocks are newer installations, often machine-room-less, where taking the lift out of service for an examination affects residents directly rather than staff.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Every one of them carries people, so the interval is six months rather than twelve — there is no kind of passenger lift that sits on the twelve-month default. Examination covers the car and its structure, the suspension ropes or hydraulic ram, the landing and car door interlocks, the overspeed governor and safety gear, the buffers in the pit, the final limits and the controller's safety circuits. The door interlocks and the governor are where the findings usually are.

Areas covered around Chatham

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

  • Chatham Maritime
  • Chatham Waters
  • Pentagon Centre
  • Historic Dockyard
  • Brompton
  • Luton
  • Walderslade
  • Princes Park

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Chatham — common questions

How often does a passenger lift in Chatham need examining?

Every six months. LOLER sets a six-monthly interval for any lifting equipment that carries people, which includes every passenger lift regardless of its age, size or how lightly it is used. The twelve-monthly interval applies to goods-only equipment, which is why a building with both a passenger lift and a goods lift is on two different cycles.

Can the examination be done outside trading or teaching hours?

Yes, and in Chatham it usually has to be. Retail lifts in the Pentagon and Dockside centres and campus lifts at Medway are both awkward to isolate during the day, so examinations are scheduled early, late or at weekends by arrangement. Being based in Medway rather than travelling in makes an early start practical.

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.

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