• Improved Compliance: Gain a clear understanding of legal responsibilities under LOLER and PUWER to help ensure your workplace meets regulatory requirements.

• Increased Safety Awareness: Learn how to identify risks and apply safe working practices when using or managing lifting equipment.

• Stronger Workforce Competency: Build foundational knowledge that supports informed decision-making and safer day-to-day operations.

• LEEA Accredited Certification: Completing LEEA Accredited training demonstrates your company's dedication to safety, quality, and professionalism in the lifting industry.

• Lifting Equipment Operators: Gain a basic understanding of the legal framework under LOLER and PUWER, and awareness of their responsibilities regarding lifting equipment.

• Inspectors and Maintenance Personnel: Receive an introduction to the key requirements of LOLER and PUWER regulations relevant to lifting equipment, helping build foundational knowledge.

• Supervisors and Managers: Understand the regulatory responsibilities for compliance with LOLER and PUWER, and how to ensure these are upheld in lifting operations.

• Health and Safety Officers: Become familiar with the scope and purpose of LOLER and PUWER legislation and how it applies to lifting equipment in the workplace.

• New Personnel in Lifting Operations: Obtain an overview of LOLER and PUWER regulations to build essential awareness of legal requirements affecting lifting equipment.

• Regulatory Overview: Introduce the key principles of LOLER and PUWER.

• Legal Responsibilities: Improve awareness of duties related to lifting equipment use and management.

• Equipment Safety: Explain the importance of suitability, inspection, and maintenance.

• Hazard Awareness: Support the identification of risks and control measures.

• Workplace Compliance: Highlight how following LOLER and PUWER supports legal and operational compliance.

• Pathway to Competency: Provide a foundation for further training in lifting equipment inspection and examination.

• LOLER - Lifting Equipment and Lifting Operations Regulations

• PUWER - Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations

• Health and Safety at work Act 1974

• The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (MHSAW) 1999

• Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

• Supply of Machinery Safety Regulations

• Approved Codes of Practice

• British and International Standards

• Harmonised European Standards

• HSE Guidance

• HSAW - Application Outside Great Britain

Criteria Covered

• Understanding the purpose and intent of LOLER and PUWER regulations

• Key definitions and terminology within each regulation

• Responsibilities of employers, employees, and duty holders

• Core requirements for the inspection, maintenance, and safe use of equipment

• Fundamentals of risk assessment in relation to equipment and lifting operations

• Overview of documentation and record-keeping obligations

Course Content

• To view the full course content please download the Course Information Sheet.

Each participant must pass a theory assessment to demonstrate a solid understanding of the course content.

There are no prerequisites to attend this course.

Total Training Hours: 4 - Self Paced

Not Applicable for e-Learning

Location: online

• Minimum: 1

• Maximum: N/A

LEEA Accredited: Three Years

ID

Each participant is required to produce photographic ID on the first day of the course. Failure to do so will result in the participant being unable to participate.

Acceptable Forms of ID:

• Photo Driving Licence

• Passport