Health/Safety & Testing

The Health and Safety Policy at Progress Plant is to take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all employees while at work and to protect our customers, visitors and the general public from injury both in house and with the machines we send out on hire. Routine checks are carried out on our depots throughout the year and machines are tested each and every time they are due out.

Loler test certification is sent out with all machines applicable and copies of them available on request via email or post should it be required. All our test certificates are out sourced via TÜV UK Limited, Inspection Body No. 0033 which is accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) as a Type A body in accordance with International Standard ISO/IEC 17020:2012 – Conformity assessment – Requirements for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection.

The accreditation demonstrates technical competence for the defined scope specified in our current Schedule of Accreditation.

For lifting equipment the accreditation covers in-service inspection and preparation of written schemes of examination, our methods and procedures which are in accordance with the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 SI 1998, No. 2307 (UK & NI) and Internal TÜV UK Procedures.

TÜV UK Limited is a member of the Safety Assessment Federation (SAFed) and in the case of LOLER is represented on SAFed Technical Committee TC2 Machinery Lift and Crane.