
Statutory Inspection Management
Statutory inspection management with consultancy-led oversight.
Advisory support to help organisations manage statutory engineering inspections, stay compliant and improve oversight under obligations including LOLER and PSSR.


Oversight without the admin burden.
The consultancy is designed to provide expert oversight and practical guidance, helping you stay compliant, reduce risk and remove the administrative burden from internal teams.
What We Cover
The main statutory inspection support areas.
Compliance reviews and audits
Reviews and audits of inspection programmes are used to test whether current arrangements remain compliant with the relevant legislation and whether risk is being properly identified and managed.
The aim is to move beyond assumptions about coverage or status by clarifying where obligations are secure, where ownership is weak and where potential gaps could create operational or legal exposure.
Programme management
Support with statutory inspection programme management helps organisations keep oversight of schedules, responsibilities, defects and close-out activity rather than treating inspections as isolated events.
This also improves the value taken from inspection services by making sure findings are tracked properly and used to support stronger asset risk decisions over time.
- Stronger ownership of due dates, findings and follow-up actions.
- Better visibility over where programme performance is drifting.
Provider coordination
Collaborative working with engineering inspection service providers helps ensure inspections are being delivered in a way that reflects the organisation's responsibilities, assets and operational constraints.
This is often where communication, escalation and scope issues become clearer, particularly when multiple sites, contractors or service lines are involved.
Contract and KPI oversight
Checking contractual obligations, KPIs and SLAs helps organisations understand whether provider performance is actually matching the standard required by the brief and the legal duty involved.
That oversight creates a stronger basis for challenge, improvement and accountability where inspection delivery, reporting quality or response times are not where they need to be.
Maintenance and FM alignment
Working alongside maintenance and FM providers helps connect statutory inspection findings with the wider maintenance programme so actions are not lost between separate teams or contractors.
This becomes especially important where asset condition, recurring defects or access arrangements affect whether inspection-related actions are actually being resolved in time.
Legislative confidence
Support around obligations under legislation including LOLER and PSSR helps organisations understand which duties apply, how programmes should be structured and where risk increases if oversight becomes fragmented.
The goal is to give internal teams more confidence in the compliance position while making inspection management clearer, more consistent and easier to govern.
- Useful where estates are complex, multi-site or contractor-heavy.
- Helps connect statutory duty with practical programme management.
Services Include
Our statutory inspection management services
Reviews and risk visibility
Consultancy work that checks compliance and highlights areas of risk.
Programme management
Support to make statutory inspection programmes easier to control and more effective.
Provider and contract oversight
Oversight of third-party providers and inspection service performance.
Maintenance coordination
Practical coordination across inspection, maintenance and FM responsibilities.
Safety Management FAQs
Statutory Inspection FAQs
Answers to common questions about inspection programme reviews, provider oversight and statutory compliance management.
SML helps organisations manage statutory engineering inspections in line with UK legislation, including LOLER and PSSR, while improving oversight and control.
Yes. The consultancy includes reviews and audits of inspection programmes to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and to highlight any areas of potential risk.
Yes. Reviews can highlight overdue activity, unclear ownership, missing inspection scope or assets that present increased risk because the programme is not being managed effectively.
SML can carry out a baseline review of the current arrangements and help determine whether the programme, responsibilities and provider coverage are proportionate to the equipment and legal duties involved.
Yes. Part of the review can include how defects are tracked, escalated and closed out, helping organisations spot recurring issues that increase both operational and compliance risk.
Related Services
Explore other services
Retained Health & Safety Support

Flexible, ongoing health and safety support acting as your dedicated external compliance partner.
Read moreHealth & Safety Consultancy

Comprehensive support to help businesses manage risk, ensure compliance, and maintain safe working environments.
Read moreOccupational Hygiene

Expert assessment and control of workplace health hazards such as noise, dust, and exposure to harmful substances.
Read more