Inspection – Report of Thorough Examination Carried out on site or at Concord Depot

All Lifting equipment and accessories are required to have a current Report of Thorough Examination in order to be used.  Depending on the equipment the reports are due every 3, 6 or 9 months-the most common frequency for inspection is 6 months.  One of the benefits of hiring from Concord Lifting Equipment is all equipment is issued with a current Report dated from the first day of the hire and if your hire exceeds the length of the certificate we will re-certify the equipment for free.

We have multiple operatives working throughout the UK carrying out Reports of Thorough Examinations on customer

Book your Inspection work in now –

Have equipment that needs inspection? spend 30 seconds filling out this form and we will get back to you straight away with a quote, it doesn’t matter if you have worked with us before or not!

Benefits of Concord carrying out your testing, Inspection and Report of Thorough Examination

• Easy Pricing No hidden costs – The majority of our inspection work is charged out on a per hour basis, how every long the travel time is and how long it takes to carry out the inspection is what you will get charged.  There is no minimum half day charge.  If it takes 25 minutes to get there, 25 minutes back and 10 minutes to do the work you will be charged just for 1 hour.
• Years of Experience – Our operatives carrying out the inspection have years of experience, all onsite inspectors have to carry out a minimum of a years work in one our depots ‘on the tools’ repairing and servicing our hire equipment before they go onsite to inspect other peoples equipment
• Simple Repair included in the price – Where possible if equipment looks as though it will fail its report of Thorough Examination our operative will do what they can to repair the equipment onsite for you for the same price.  If the repair is more technical we will give you a no obligation quotation free of charge to repair the equipment to bring it up to standard
• Preferential pricing on replacements – If repairing equipment is not safe or uneconomical you will get a discount on the new equipment required.
• Clear labeling and instructions – All equipment should have its safe working load and any other critical information clearly visible at all times, if for some reason these details have work off we apply a durable weatherproof sticker with this information on there and a QR code/simple link to our mobile optimized website so the operator can view the operating instructions from any phone (iPhone, Android, Windows phone etc) tablet or desktop.
• Tagging – For a nominal fee we will put tamper proof tags on the equipment in a color coded system, i.e blue tags expire January, red expire February which has the safe working load/requirement information on the tags on the equipment
• Managed reminders/ Safe keeping of all reports of thorough Examination – We all know what it is like, you get a test cert and file it somewhere and then 2 months later come to use the equipment and cannot find the cert! Our operatives create the report of thorough Examination electronically onsite and it is instantly uploaded to our secure server where it is checked by our office staff to make sure everything is as it should be.  It then creates a reminder which will email you 1 month prior to when the inspection is next due.  But more importantly you can rest assured that if the equipment is labelled/tagged we have the report of thorough examination on file and will email you an electronic copy within minutes of request normally but a maximum of 1 business day.  If it is within its dates you can use the equipment

Why Choose Concord Lifting for Inspection & Testing?

Information on LOLER Requirements for Lifting Equipment Safety & Inspection

Requirements That LOLER 1998 Places On Employers and Workers

LOLER 1998 essentially puts in place four key protocols that all employers and workers must abide by:

1. All equipment must be safe and suitable for purpose The manufacturer must identify any hazards associated with the equipment in question, they must then assess these hazards to bring them down to acceptable levels. All lifting equipment is normally put through an independent type testing process to establish that it will safely perform the tasks required to one of the below standards. • BS (British Standard, used mainly in the UK) • ISO Standards (International Standard) • EN (Euronorm, used throughout Europe) • CEN/CENELEC (Euronorm Standards) The above standards are a published specification that establishes a common language and contains a technical specification or other precise criteria. They are designed to be used consistently as a rule, guideline or definition.
2. All personnel must be suitably trained. All manufacturers of lifting equipment are obliged to send out instructions for use of all products. The employer is then obliged to make sure employees are aware of these instructions and use the lifting equipment correctly. To achieve this the employees must be competent. Competence is achieved through experience, technical knowledge and training.
3. All equipment must be maintained in a safe condition. It is good practice for all personnel using lifting equipment to conduct a pre-use inspection on all items. Regulation 9 of LOLER also outlines specific requirements for the formal inspection of lifting equipment at mandatory intervals. These inspections are to be performed by a competent person and the findings of the inspections recorded. Maximum fixed periods for thorough examinations and inspection of lifting equipment as stated in regulation 9 of LOLER are: •Lifting Accessories – 6 Months •Lifting Appliances – 12 Months •Man Riding Equipment – 6 Months Or in accordance with a written scheme of examination. Any inspection record must be made in line with the requirements of schedule 1 of LOLER The only exception to this is: If the lifting equipment has not been used before and; In the case of lifting equipment issued with an EC declaration of conformity, the employer has possession of such declaration and it is not made more than 12 months before the lifting equipment is put into service.
4. Records must be kept for all equipment. All equipment manufactured should be given a “birth certificate”. This should prove that when first made, it complied with any requirement. In Europe today, this document would normally be an EC Declaration of conformity plus a manufacturers certificate if called for by the standard worked to.