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This guidance explains the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998. It aims to help users learn about and understand the Regulations dealing with lifting equipment in everyday workplaces such as factories, offices, shops, hospitals, construction sites, warehouses, farms - wherever lifting equipment is used at work. The main groups for whom this guidance is intended for are local authority health and safety inspectors; local authority enforcement officers; health and safety professionals who provide services within medium-sized to large companies, for example health and safety officers and health and safety training personnel; HSE inspectors and legal professionals. Anyone who wishes to know the requirements of LOLER 1998 should find this guidance useful. Contents: Introduction; The Regulations; Citation and commencement; Interpretation; Application; Strength and stability; Lifting equipment for persons; Positioning and installation; Marking of lifting equipment; Organisation of lifting operations; Thorough examination and inspection; Reports and defects; Keeping of information; Exemption for the armed forces; Amendments to other Regulations: Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960; Docks Regulations 1988; Repeal of provisions in other Acts: the Factories Act 1961; section 85 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954; Revocation of instruments; Information to be contained in a report of thorough examination; Revocation of instruments. |
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