Lifting Equipment

LOLER 1998: What Applies to Care Home Buildings

The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 cover more equipment than most care home managers realise -- including hoists, stairlifts, ceiling tracks and passenger lifts.

LOLER Thorough Examination: Frequencies and Who Can Do Them

How often each type of lifting equipment must be thoroughly examined, and what qualifications the examiner must hold.

Hoist Safety in Care Homes: Beyond the LOLER Check

LOLER sets the minimum. Good hoist management in a care setting requires pre-use checks, sling management, and staff training on top of six-monthly thorough examinations.

Passenger Lifts in Care Homes: Maintenance, LOLER and the Rescue Plan

Care home passenger lifts carry some of the most vulnerable users of any building. What the law requires -- and what good practice looks like beyond it.

Stairlifts, Platform Lifts and Dumb Waiters: LOLER Obligations

Smaller lifting equipment is easy to overlook in LOLER compliance programmes. What care homes with stairlifts, platform lifts and dumb waiters need to know.

LOLER 1998: Why Every Hoist in Your Care Home Needs a 6-Monthly Examination

The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 require that equipment used for lifting persons is thoroughly examined every 6 months. In care homes this means hoists, ceiling tracks, stairlifts and bath hoists -- and it is one of the most consistently missed compliance obligations.

LOLER Sling Registers: What Care Homes Must Record and When

Hoist slings are lifting accessories under LOLER 1998 and must be examined by a competent person every 6 months. A separate sling register is required. Slings without a current examination report must be removed from use -- and CQC inspectors check.

LOLER thorough examination frequency: what care homes must arrange

Every hoist, stairlift, passenger lift and bath hoist in a care home must undergo a thorough examination by a competent person under LOLER 1998, at least every 6 months.

LOLER hoist inspections in care homes: frequency, competence and what to record

The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 require that all patient hoists in care homes are thoroughly examined at least every six months by a competent person -- and this is distinct from routine servicing.