227 The HSW Act (section 2(2)(c)) places a duty on employers to their employees for ‘... the provision of such, information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees’. These Regulations extend the duties on employers to other dutyholders listed in regulation 3(3)

28 The following examples illustrate the type of equipment which can raise or lower loads and the broad range of lifting operations, which should be assessed for the application of LOLER. These are examples and the Regulations may be relevant to other equipment used for similar activities or where the equipment listed is used for different lifting operations: (a) cranes; (b) lift trucks and telescopic handlers; (c) hand pallet trucks, specifically those that have the ability to raise the forks; (d) goods lifts or passenger lifts, for example in an office block, hospital etc which are provided for those at work; (e) simple systems such as a rope and pulley used to raise a bucket of cement on a building site, a construction site hoist, a gin wheel, or a dumb waiter in a restaurant or hotel; (f) pull-lifts; (g) vacuum lifting equipment; (h) a vehicle inspection hoist; (i) a scissor lift or a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP);