Statutory Inspection Services for Facilities Managers

Facilities management is multi-regime by nature. Even a single-site FM contract usually carries lifting equipment, machinery, pressure systems, and access equipment — each governed by a different regulation, each with its own examination interval, each producing its own report for its own audience. Multiply that across a portfolio of sites and the coordination problem becomes the value the FM provider is selling.

We provide LOLER, PUWER and PSSR thorough examinations for FM providers across Kent, London, Essex, and nationwide through the Engineer Surveyor Inspection Network (ESiNet). The differentiator for FM accounts is the ability to source three regulatory regimes from one independent inspection provider — with consistent reporting format, single point of contact, and multi-site contract pricing.

Three regulatory regimes, one inspection provider

Most independent inspection providers cover one or two of the statutory regimes. The FM provider then has to coordinate across multiple specialists, manage the scheduling, reconcile the reports into a single compliance picture, and chase the chase-ups separately. EIS covers all three of the regimes most commonly needed in commercial / industrial FM:

• LOLER 1998 — passenger lifts, goods lifts, dumbwaiters, platform lifts, hoists, MEWPs, dock levellers, scaffold hoists, lifting accessories (slings, shackles, eyebolts). Examination intervals 6-monthly (personnel-lifting) or 12-monthly (loads only). See our lifting equipment inspection service, passenger and goods lift service, work-at-height equipment service, and crane service.
• PUWER 1998 — workshop machinery, vehicle lifts, MOT bay equipment, garage equipment, factory plant. Examination at suitable intervals determined by risk. See our garage equipment inspection service.
• PSSR 2000 — air receivers, compressed air systems, steam plant, autoclaves, café and hot-water boilers, process pressure equipment. Examination intervals per the Written Scheme of Examination (we also draft and review WSEs). See our PSSR inspection service and Written Scheme of Examination service.

Where LEV testing (COSHH Regulation 9) is in scope, EIS doesn't provide that directly — but it can be coordinated to fall in the same compliance window as the LOLER / PUWER / PSSR examinations. See our LEV duty-holder guide for the regulatory context.

Multi-site PPM integration

For FM providers, statutory examination rarely sits in isolation — it has to fit around the planned preventative maintenance cycle, around operational windows, around tenant access, and around the FM provider's own resource scheduling. We work to those constraints rather than imposing our own.

• Examination windows aligned to PPM — where the FM provider has an established PPM cycle, the LOLER / PUWER / PSSR examinations are scheduled to fall in compatible windows. Sometimes that means same-day attendance with maintenance contractors (without doing the examination jointly — independence matters); sometimes it means alternating cycles so disruption is minimised.
• Out-of-hours availability — Saturday daytime visits carry no additional charge. Sunday and weekday-after-6pm slots may carry a premium unless we've initiated the timing for engineer routing reasons. We're upfront about any premium on the quote.
• Tenant-access coordination — for multi-tenant buildings where the FM provider needs to schedule around individual tenant operations, we work to those windows. Notice requirements are factored into the schedule.
• Portable report format — reports are digital PDFs with photographic evidence and structured defect categorisation, designed to be ingested into any CAFM or asset management platform the FM provider runs. We don't push a proprietary platform.

Multi-site contract pricing for FM accounts

FM contracts run on annual cycles with predictable equipment populations, which is the pricing model statutory inspection providers should match. Our multi-site contract structure for FM accounts:

• Fixed annual contract value covering the year's planned examinations across all in-scope sites. Budget certainty for the FM provider, scheduling certainty for us.
• Per-item rates that fall with volume — the volume effect across a multi-site contract sits inside the per-item rate, not as a separate discount line. We don't publish specific volume bands because the actual rate reflects equipment mix, site density, and contract scope.
• Itemised by site — the contract value breaks down by site so the FM provider can recover the cost through their service contract or service charge as appropriate, or split bills back to clients where that's the arrangement.
• Change-of-scope at the agreed per-item rate — new sites or equipment additions during the contract year are priced at the rate already in the contract, not at a higher one-off rate. Removed equipment is credited at renewal.
• Out-of-area sites via ESiNet — for UK-wide FM contracts where the equipment register includes sites outside our direct coverage, ESiNet partner engineers attend. The contract value covers travel within the agreed geography; significantly out-of-area sites are quoted separately and transparently.
• Consolidated or split billing — single invoice for the contract, or per-client / per-site billing where the FM provider needs that for downstream recovery.

Independent of the maintenance contractor

FM providers often retain maintenance contractors for the equipment they're responsible for keeping in service. Under LOLER, the competent person carrying out the thorough examination must be independent of the routine maintenance. HSE ACOP L113 is explicit about this — the structural conflict between maintaining equipment and certifying it as compliant is exactly what the independence requirement exists to address.

EIS doesn't sell maintenance contracts. We don't supply replacement parts. We don't operate a sister company that does. Our only commercial output is the inspection report, which means the examination is structurally separated from any commercial interest in the equipment's day-to-day operation. For FM providers, that independence simplifies the compliance audit trail considerably — the examination evidence stands on its own.

Frequently asked questions

For pricing factors deep-dive see LOLER inspection cost and cost factors. For sector-specific patterns see care homes, property managers, warehousing & logistics, and hotels & hospitality.