# LOLER inspection checklist template > Free LOLER inspection checklist for pre-use checks and inspections of slings and machines. Add your logo and download it as PDF, Word or Excel. > Web page: https://complyonsite.com/tools/inspection-checklist-template?kind=loler Free, no account Free, no account ## Choose a design ## Pre-use check or thorough examination LOLER work has three levels. This sheet holds the first two. The third is a report from a competent person, and no checklist stands in for it. - **Pre-use check**: By a trained user, before use each working day or shift. Report and record any defect. - **Inspection**: By a competent person, often an operator or fitter, weekly, monthly or quarterly as your risk assessment shows. Kept as a written record. - **Thorough examination**: By a competent person independent of routine maintenance. Every 6 months for accessories and anything lifting people, every 12 for the rest, or to a written scheme. It ends in a report. ## Accessories and machines Sheet 1 is for accessories, which normally need no inspection beyond a proper pre-use check and the thorough examination ([INDG422](https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg422.pdf)). ### All equipment - ID and SWL marked and readable - Last thorough examination in date, report held - People-lifting equipment marked as such ### Chain slings - Top fitting not distorted - Chain not stretched, links move freely - Links not bent or twisted - No wear at interlink seats - Hook throat not opened out, lower fitting sound - Safety catch works - No cuts, nicks, gouges, cracks or corrosion - No heat discolouration - Joining devices correctly assembled ### Wire rope slings - Terminal fittings and thimbles sound - Rope, splice, ferrule sound, not slipping - No broken wires - Safety catches work - No corrosion or dried lubricant - No kinks or permanent set - Wires and strands in place, core not showing - No heat damage, blueing, spatter or arcing - Hook throat not opened out, fittings sound ### Shackles and hooks - Shackles not distorted - Hooks have a safety catch where possible Sheet 2 is for machines such as cranes, forklifts and hoists, which is where a regular inspection usually applies. ### Machines - Limiters and indicators work - Controls work - No components missing, such as bolts - Interlocks work, not defeated - Rated capacity indicator works - Tyre pressures, if mobile - Lifting ropes undamaged ## Lifting equipment inspection checklist PDF Download this lifting equipment inspection checklist as a two-sheet A4 PDF to print, or as Word or Excel to change. The top of the sheet takes the equipment, its ID, its safe working load and the reference of its last report of thorough examination. Equipment used away from its usual place needs evidence of that examination to go with it. ## LOLER checklist questions ### Does this checklist meet LOLER regulation 9? No. Only a competent person’s thorough examination does that, and it ends in a report with the content [Schedule 1](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2307/schedule/1/made) sets out. Keep this sheet alongside it. ### Do slings need a weekly inspection? Not normally. [L113](https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/l113.pdf) says accessories such as slings can rely on a proper pre-use check and the thorough examination. Your risk assessment may still ask for more. ### What if a check finds a defect? Record it and report it. If it is or could become a danger, tell the employer at once and [stop using the equipment](https://www.hse.gov.uk/work-equipment-machinery/thorough-examinations-lifting-equipment.htm) until it is put right. ### How long is an inspection record kept? Until the next one is made. It does not have to be on paper. For work equipment, a ladder or a harness, start from the [inspection checklist template](https://complyonsite.com/tools/inspection-checklist-template).