• Improved Compliance: Gain a clear understanding of legal responsibilities under LOLER 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.

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

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

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

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

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

• Regulatory Overview: Introduce the key principles of LOLER.

• 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 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

Criteria Covered

• Understanding the purpose and intent of the LOLER 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: 1hr - Self Paced

Not Applicable for e-Learning

Location: online

• Minimum: 1

• Maximum: N/A

Three Years