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Lifting equipment: thorough examination record
Register · Every 6 months (lifting people or accessories) or 12 months, or by an examination scheme
Keeps the competent person's report of a thorough examination, with the details LOLER requires and the date the next one is due.
Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.
The law and guidance behind it
The questions
The equipment
- Name and address of the employer the examination was made for (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 1)
- Address of the premises where it was examined (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 2)
- Equipment: make, model, serial or plant number, and date of manufacture if known (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 3)
- Safe working load (or for the configuration last examined) (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 5)
- Date of the last thorough examination (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 4)
- This examination was (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraphs 6 and 7)
The examination
- Date of the thorough examination (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 8(f))
- Any part with a defect that is or could become a danger, and the defect (write "None" if none) (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 8(a))
- Repair, renewal or alteration needed for a dangerous defect (write "None" if none) (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 8(b))
- A defect not yet dangerous: by when it could become so, and the repair needed (write "None" if none) (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 8(c))
- Particulars of any test (write "None" if no test) (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 8(e))
- Safe to operate
- Latest date for the next thorough examination (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 8(d))
The report
- The examiner: name, address and qualifications; self-employed, or their employer's name and address (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 9)
- Name and address of anyone signing the report for its author (write "None" if signed by the author) (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 10)
- Date of the report (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, paragraph 11)
- The examiner's report (PDF or photo)
A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.
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