The Crossrail Awards
Monthly winner safety award, presented to: Chris Turner.
Heavy Lifting Equipment, Accessories and Contract Lifting Services
Unit D3, Leyland Business Park,
Centurion Park,
Leyland,
PR25 3GR United Kingdom
Lifting Gear UK is the one-stop provider for a comprehensive lifting and handling equipment. We also have a specialist division, Lifting Projects, which focuses on contract lifting services.
Lifting Gear UK specialises in customised fabrications, equipment hire, LOLER inspections, onsite or offsite testing, repairs and sales.
Our product range includes heavy lifting and jacking equipment with capacities of up to 700t, as well as general site and manual handling equipment. We also have various height safety equipment and solutions available for sale or hire.
Lifting Projects offers contract lifting services for various industries, including offshore, onshore, renewables and oil and gas sectors in the UK.
Our services are delivered through our ISO 9001:2008 accreditation and our specialist contract lifting is undertaken by our CPCS-qualified and trained workforce in accordance to the BS 7121-1 2006 standard.
Lifting Projects’ contract lifting services covers the following:
Our services and unique alternative lifting solutions have been used in a number of high-profile projects. These include the installation of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) on the Crossrail project in London, as well as lifting the 700t UB07 forward island and the UB14 Island onto the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier at the Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland.
Lifting Gear UK provides clients with advice, examination criteria and the necessary means to perform Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) inspections.
LOLER combines a number of legal requirements associated with lifting gear into a single, statutory inspection system.
LOLER incorporates the following guidelines:
The aim of LOLER is to protect operators and personnel who work closely with lifting equipment.
LOLER requires that any lifting equipment used or provided in a working environment must be:
Lifting Gear UK has its own LOLER-qualified team that performs the necessary equipment inspections, testing and examinations. We also have various types of equipment available for hire for applications where a test load is needed as part of an examination, which includes:
Using up-to-date technologies, including computer-aided design (CAD), Lifting Gear UK offers a complete design and fabrication package as part of a client’s customised lifting solution.
We additionally specialise in the following services:
With more than 120 years’ experience in executing heavy lifts across the UK, every operation performed by Lifting Projects is comprehensively engineered and planned.
Each lifting project undergoes an initial rigging study to guarantee maximum safety and efficiency throughout the procedure.
Lifting Projects UK has a large range of heavy lifting accessories, which are available for general hire on a national and international basis.
We offer the most advanced and extensive inventory of lifting equipment in the world, including cranes with a capacity of up to 4,400t, jacking systems and a variety of versatile lifting accessories, such as:
Customisable accessories provided by Lifting Projects UK include the following:
Our rigging equipment is continuously maintained and inspected to the highest standards and key components are load-tested to ensure the utmost lifting safety.
Lifting Projects offer a vast supply of modular spreader beams ranging from 9m to 20m in length. We also offer longer lengths of up to 26m, which provides a safe working load of 349t.
Lifting Gear UK is a member of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association and its staff consists of technical committee members and a team of trained technicians and engineers.
Monthly winner safety award, presented to: Chris Turner.
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