LOLER Online Course

If you work with lifting equipment, you need to be aware of potential risks to heath and safety - not just for you, but those working alongside you. Lifting equipment can cause serious injury if you don't comply with the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER).

This comprehensive IOSH Approved online LOLER course will explain the various responsibilities for employers and employees under the regulations, to make sure lifting equipment is handled and managed lawfully.

You'll understand the potential hazards, as well as how to prevent them – helping you to feel confident in assessing risks, maintaining equipment and planning operations correctly.

By the end of this 30-minute online LOLER course, you will:

• Understand what LOLER expects from workplaces that carry out lifting operations
• Know the most common risks linked to lifting operations and equipment
• Confidently choose the most appropriate lifting equipment
• Be able to conduct an examination of lifting equipment
• Know how to plan and organise lifting operations
• Be able to position lifting equipment correctly, to reduce risks in the workplace
• Demonstrate a knowledge of a range of risk factors, including proximity hazards, working with suspended loads, poor weather and low visibility

This online course covers the following topic areas:

• An introduction to LOLER – the risks and the legislation
• Lifting equipment, lifting accessories and the load
• The importance of choosing the right equipment
• How to examine and maintain equipment
• Ways to reduce risks, including the location and position of equipment, suspended loads, proximity hazards, visibility and securing loads
• Emergency procedures, instruction and training

At the end of this course, you will take an online exam containing 20 multiple-choice questions. The exam is marked automatically and you’ll find out your results straight away. A pass mark of 80% is required, however, if you are unsuccessful, you can re-take the exam as many times as you need to at no extra charge.