Safety Management Ltd

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.

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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.

Reviews of inspection programmes
Audits against relevant legislation
Identification of areas of potential risk

Programme management

Support to make statutory inspection programmes easier to control and more effective.

Management of statutory inspection programmes
Extracting value from the inspection service

Provider and contract oversight

Oversight of third-party providers and inspection service performance.

Working collaboratively with engineering inspection service providers
Checking contractual obligations
Reviewing KPIs and SLAs

Maintenance coordination

Practical coordination across inspection, maintenance and FM responsibilities.

Working alongside maintenance providers
Working alongside FM providers
Managing maintenance programmes on equipment within inspection requirements

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.

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