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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Healthcare & Care Estate

Passenger Lift Inspections in Gillingham

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Gillingham. The town holds the most demanding passenger-lift estate in Medway: a major acute hospital site, a large stock of care and supported accommodation, and residential blocks where the lift is the accessible route in.

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The passenger-lift stock in Gillingham

Gillingham's passenger-lift stock is weighted towards healthcare and care accommodation rather than offices. That changes what an examination has to cover. Bed lifts are deep-car installations carrying patients and staff together. Firefighting and evacuation lifts have duties beyond the ordinary passenger lift and are frequently the installations nobody is certain about. Care and supported accommodation runs platform lifts and through-floor lifts alongside patient and bath hoists, which are themselves six-monthly lifting equipment and are the items most often left off a schedule entirely.

What the six-monthly examination covers

All of it is six-monthly, because all of it carries people. On a healthcare site the examination also has to be planned around the building rather than the plant: a lift serving a ward cannot be isolated at will, and the sequence matters more than the visit. Patient hoists are examined as lifting equipment in their own right, not as an accessory to the lift programme.

Areas covered around Gillingham

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

  • Gillingham Business Park
  • Gillingham High Street
  • Brompton
  • Twydall
  • Wigmore
  • Parkwood
  • Riverside
  • Hempstead

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Gillingham — common questions

Are patient hoists examined on the same cycle as the lifts?

Yes — six months, the same interval, because a patient hoist lifts a person. They are a separate item of lifting equipment rather than part of the lift programme, and they are the commonest omission from a care-home or hospital equipment register. A site can hold a current certificate for every lift in the building and nothing at all for thirty hoists.

What is different about examining a firefighting or evacuation lift?

It carries duties the ordinary passenger lift does not, and those duties are what make it worth being certain about. The examination still covers everything a passenger lift examination covers, but the installation exists to work in circumstances where the building is being evacuated, and on many sites nobody is clear which lift is which or what it is supposed to do.

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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