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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — A Goods-Lift Town

Passenger Lift Inspections in Strood

Independent thorough examination of passenger lifts across Strood — and an honest note about the town, because Strood is not really a passenger-lift town. Its lifting equipment is dominated by Medway City Estate: goods lifts, dock levellers, forklift fleets and overhead lifting. The passenger lifts are there, but they are the minority of the plant and they are easy to overlook precisely because everything around them is on a different cycle.

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The passenger-lift stock in Strood

Where passenger lifts do exist in Strood they are mostly in trade-counter and distribution offices, retail park units and the handful of multi-storey commercial premises through the town. They tend to be single installations in buildings whose compliance attention is on the warehouse rather than the office core — which is exactly how a six-monthly interval slips while a twelve-monthly forklift programme runs on time.

What the six-monthly examination covers

That split is the point worth understanding. A Strood site can be entirely on top of its forklift examinations at twelve months and six weeks overdue on the office passenger lift, because nobody connected the two. Passenger lifts, platform lifts and anything else carrying people are six-monthly; goods lifts and forklifts are twelve, and dock levellers are usually inspected every twelve months under PUWER. One register covering both is the only way the shorter interval does not get lost behind the longer one.

Areas covered around Strood

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

  • Medway City Estate
  • Strood Retail Park
  • Temple Marsh
  • Frindsbury
  • Wainscott
  • Higham
  • Cliffe
  • Halling

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Strood — common questions

Is the office lift on the same schedule as the forklift fleet?

No, and that is the problem. A passenger lift is examined every six months because it carries people. Forklifts and goods lifts are twelve-monthly, and dock levellers are usually inspected every twelve months under PUWER. On a Medway City Estate site where the compliance effort goes into the yard and the warehouse, the office lift quietly falls due twice for every one time the fleet does.

Can you examine the passenger lift and the yard plant in one visit?

Usually, and on a mixed Strood site that is the sensible way to do it — one attendance covering the lift, the fleet and the accessories, with the shorter interval driving when the visit happens. The reports remain separate documents for separate items of equipment, but the scheduling does not have to be.

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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