Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
Regulations 1998

Accredited by UKAS to carry out
the inspection of lifting equipment.

Equipment covered by these regulations include:
	Passenger & Goods Lifts
	Fork Lift Trucks
	Hoists
	Excavators & Earth Moving Equipment
	Cranes, Tower, Mobile and Fixed
	Window Cleaning Rigs

 

Lifting equipment includes any equipment used at work for lifting or lowering loads, including attachments used for anchoring, fixing or supporting.

The regulations cover a wide range of equipment including, cranes, forklift trucks, lifts, hoists, mobile elevating work platforms and vehicle inspection platform hoists.

The definition also includes lifting accessories such as chains, slings, eyebolts etc

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