LEEA Accredited LOLER & PUWER eLearning

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

• Inspectors and Maintenance Personnel: Receive an introduction to the key requirements of LOLER and PUWER regulations relevant to lifting and work 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 the workplace.

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

• New Personnel: Obtain an overview of LOLER and PUWER regulations to build essential awareness of legal requirements affecting lifting and work 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

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