Lifting operations...
When hiring equipment to perform any lifting operation you have two options; to Hire and Manage the lift yourself, or Contract Hire, where the organization hiring you the equipment takes full responsibility for the lifting operation. To Hire and Manage, there must be someone in your organization that has knowledge, experience and understanding of lifting operations – a person appointed to be in control of lifting operations, or an appointed person.
For clients that have no knowledge, experience or understanding of lifting operations your only option is a Contract Lift, where the organization hiring the equipment to you will take full responsibility for the lifting operation with their own appointed person. We have qualified Appointed Persons (Lifting Operations) within our organization to take responsibility for all of the lifting operations we perform.
The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations state that ‘all personnel involved in a lifting operation must have adequate knowledge, experience and understanding of lifting operations for a safe lift’. A safe lifting operation involves more than a trained and competent lorry loader operator; it means there has to be a level of planning of any lifting operation and that the people doing that planning must also have knowledge, experience and understanding of how to plan a safe lift.
We offer this service individually, controlling lifting operations on clients sites, from commencement of a project through to completion or as part of a ‘one-stop-shop’ lifting operation.