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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Romford, Hornchurch & Upminster

Passenger Lift Inspections in Havering

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Havering. The borough has an older population than most of London, and a large share of its lifts are in retirement housing, sheltered schemes and care homes, where the lift matters more than anywhere.

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The passenger-lift stock in Havering

Romford town centre has new residential blocks, offices and shopping centre lifts. Hornchurch, Upminster and Gidea Park have retirement developments, sheltered housing and care homes, many with passenger lifts, stairlifts and patient hoists. Harold Hill and Collier Row have council estates. Rainham has industrial and logistics sites along the Thames.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Six months for anything that lifts people. In retirement and care settings that includes stairlifts and hoists as well as the lift, and they are the items most often left off the schedule. We examine them together and keep one record per scheme.

Areas covered around Havering

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

  • Romford
  • Hornchurch
  • Upminster
  • Gidea Park
  • Harold Wood
  • Collier Row
  • Elm Park
  • Rainham

Passenger lift inspections in other London boroughs

Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Havering — common questions

Do stairlifts in a retirement scheme need LOLER inspection?

Yes, in practice. Where the scheme operator controls them and staff, carers or contractors use them at work, LOLER applies, and where only residents use them the operator's general duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act are normally met the same way. A stairlift lifts a person, so it is six-monthly like the passenger lift. We examine them on the same visit.

Is your Rainham the same as Rainham in Havering?

No. Our base is in the other Rainham, outside London. Rainham in Havering is a separate place in east London, and we cover it too.

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 Havering

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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