LOLER Training Course
The LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations) Training Course provides participants with the knowledge required to safely plan, manage, and carry out lifting operations in compliance with LOLER 1998 regulations. The course covers risk assessment, equipment selection, inspection requirements, maintenance procedures, and safe lifting practices.
Participants will learn how to minimize operational risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and promote a safer working environment through effective lifting equipment management and supervision.
Training Options:
Training Schedule
On-Demand
Certification Validity
Valid for 1 Year.
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Course Objective
Why Attend This Course
- The main duties required under LOLER and other relevant legislation.
- The main risks posed by lifting operations and lifting equipment, and how these risks can be controlled.
- The steps required and the factors to consider when carrying out a risk assessment of lifting operations and lifting equipment.
- How to select, position, and install lifting equipment so risks are minimized.
- How lifting operations should be planned and supervised so risks are minimized.
- How to consider factors that may affect equipment’s suitability, such as the environment and positioning.
- How to minimize risk factors such as proximity hazards, poor weather and visibility, and working with suspended loads.
- The purpose of safe working loads and the importance of adhering to them.
- The requirements surrounding thorough examinations, routine maintenance, and pre-use checks.
- Understand LOLER requirements, lifting equipment, and safe lifting operation risks.
- What is LOLER?
- Who has duties under LOLER?
- General duties of employees
- Other relevant legislation
- What is lifting equipment?
- What are lifting accessories?
- What is a load?
- Equipment excluded from LOLER
- What are the risk
Module Two: Risk Assessment
Module Three: Lifting Equipment Selection
- What is a risk assessment?
- Key definitions
- Step 1: identify the hazards
- Step 2: determine who may be harmed and how
- Step 3: evaluate risks and decide on controls
- Step 4: record your findings and implement them
- Step 5: review and update
- Selecting safe lifting equipment based on load, stability, and working conditions.
- Selecting lifting equipment and accessories
- Examples of safe lifting equipment selection
- • Environmental effects
- • Lifting equipment for lifting people
- • Strength and stability
- • Positioning and installation
- • Safe working loads
- • Derating lifting equipment
Module Four: Inspection, Maintenance & Storage
Module Five: Planning & Risk Control
- Equipment inspection, maintenance, and storage for safe operation and compliance.
- Requirements of examinations and maintenance
- • What does a thorough examination cover?
- • Competent persons
- • Frequency of thorough examinations
- • Records of thorough examinations
- • Hired equipment
- • Pre-use checks
- • Maintenance of equipment
- • Safe storage
- Planning safe lifting operations and managing operational risks.
- Planning and supervision
- • What should plan cover?
- • Location and positioning of equipment
- • Working with suspended loads
- • Attaching, detaching, and securing loads
- • Preventing overturning and destabilizing
- • Visibility and weather
- • Lifting equipment for people
- • Slips, trips, and falls
- • Emergency procedures