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An Introduction to LOLER eLearning
Online LOLER training covering lifting equipment and lifting operations: what has to be thoroughly examined, how often, and who is allowed to plan a lift.
Who it is for
Who this LOLER course is for
LOLER applies wherever lifting equipment is used at work: cranes, hoists, forklifts, passenger lifts, slings, eyebolts and vehicle lifts among them. Most failures trace back to a missing examination or an unplanned lift.
- Plant, lifting and rigging operatives
- Maintenance and engineering teams
- Warehouse and logistics staff using lifting equipment
- Site supervisors planning lifting operations
- Garage and vehicle workshop staff
- Anyone responsible for inspection records
Course content
What the LOLER course covers
Six short modules covering what LOLER catches, the thorough examination regime, and what a planned lifting operation actually looks like.
What LOLER covers
Lifting equipment and lifting accessories, and how LOLER sits on top of PUWER.
Strength, stability and positioning
Equipment suitable for the load, and positioned so the risks are reduced.
Marking and safe working loads
SWL marking, accessories, and what to do when markings are missing or illegible.
Planning lifting operations
Planned by a competent person, appropriately supervised, carried out safely.
Thorough examination
What it is, who can do it, and the intervals that apply to different equipment.
Reports and defects
Records, reports of thorough examination, and taking defective equipment out of service.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise lifting equipment and lifting accessories under LOLER
- Explain the difference between PUWER and LOLER duties
- Check safe working load markings before a lift
- Say what a planned lifting operation requires
- Explain what thorough examination is and how often it is needed
- Take defective lifting equipment out of use correctly
Your legal duty
The law behind LOLER training
The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 require lifting equipment to be strong and stable enough for the load, positioned and installed to minimise risk, marked with its safe working load, and subject to thorough examination at set intervals. Lifting operations must be planned by a competent person, appropriately supervised and carried out safely.
LOLER sits alongside PUWER rather than replacing it. Equipment that lifts is work equipment too, so both sets of duties apply at once.
- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 7
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
LOLER training for a team
LOLER awareness is worth having across a site, not only among the lifting team. Most incidents involve someone who did not realise the rules applied to them.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Lifting equipment carries PUWER duties as well as LOLER duties. See the PUWER course →
An Introduction to LOLER eLearning: common questions
PUWER covers work equipment generally. LOLER adds duties specific to lifting equipment and lifting operations, including safe working load marking and thorough examination. Lifting equipment is covered by both.
It depends on the equipment and whether it lifts people. LOLER sets intervals, and an examination scheme can set different ones. The course explains how the intervals work rather than expecting you to memorise them.
Yes. Both are lifting equipment, and passenger lifts carry the shorter interval that applies to equipment lifting people.
A competent person with the necessary practical and theoretical knowledge and experience, who is sufficiently independent to make an objective judgement.
About 30 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer. Nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences. You allocate them as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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