Inspection and Maintenance
At Penny Engineering, we recognise the importance of maintaining the functionality and safety of your lighting winch systems. Through our planned inspection and maintenance contracts and remedial works, we ensure your equipment remains safe and compliant throughout its life.
Lighting Winch Inspection and Maintenance
Chandelier maintenance and inspection services are essential for eliminating the risk of falling fixtures, avoiding costly repairs or replacements, and preventing legal penalties for non-compliance with critical health and safety regulations.
To help protect your investment and ensure the longevity of your equipment, Penny Engineering offers comprehensive lighting winch inspection and maintenance contracts. These can be tailored to reflect your duty cycle and working environment to minimise downtime, cost, and inconvenience.
Whether you need Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), statutory thorough examinations, or remedial works, we have a nationwide network of chandelier service engineers who can ensure your lifting equipment is fit for purpose, safe to use, and compliant.
Dedicated UK-Wide Service Team
Our experienced and extensive team gives us the flexibility to continuously honour our lighting winch inspection and maintenance contract commitments and deadlines both nationwide and globally, thoroughly examining and maintaining over 4500 items of lifting equipment each year.
Choose Penny Engineering for:
- Lifting Equipment Specialists: We’re chandelier maintenance experts, even in challenging environments that are difficult to access (e.g., working at height).
- Highly Skilled Engineers: Our dedicated inspection and maintenance service team are certified in work-at-height, CSCS, PASMA, and IPAF.
- Comprehensive Services: Our chandelier services include planned winch inspection and maintenance schedules with automated reminders to ensure you’re always covered.
- Innovative Solutions: We leverage robust software for cataloguing and managing large quantities of inventory found within your organisation.
- Customised Solutions: We tailor our packages to meet the unique needs of each customer, ensuring optimal performance, compliance, and convenience.
We understand that statutory examinations must be carried out within the required timeframes. Our commitment ensures that we deliver chandelier maintenance contracts promptly and efficiently, maintaining compliance with all regulatory obligations.
Our Inspection and Maintenance Services
- Bespoke design
- Installation and commissioning
- Testing (incl. proof load testing when required)
- Detailed condition surveys
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) per PUWER
- Thorough examinations per LOLER checks
- Remedial works, including:
- Re-roping wire rope hoists
- Redesigning replacement supporting steelwork / bracketry
- Replacing hoist system components (e.g., electrical control circuits)
- Re-siting hoists
- Upgrading older winch systems up to current regulatory standards
- Decommissioning systems (temporary or permanent)
- Bespoke design (fixed ceiling anchors)
- Installation ad commissioning
- Testing (incl. proof load testing when required)
- Detailed condition surveys
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) per PUWER
- Remedial works, including:
- Redesigning replacement supporting steelwork / bracketry
- Replacing worn / damaged components
- Re-siting fixed ceiling anchors
- Decommissioning runway beams / anchors (temporary or permanent)
- Detailed condition surveys
- Thorough examinations per LOLER checks
- Testing (incl. proof load testing when required)
- Detailed condition surveys
- Weighing fixtures using calibrated load cell
- Removal / storage of fixtures
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) of fixtures (incl. specialist cleaning works)
- Remedial works, including:
- Rewiring
- Replacing worn / damaged components and bulbs
International Partners
Penny Engineering supplies lifting equipment to over 25 countries around the world. Click through to find out more.
Why Choose Penny Engineering?
Our winch systems are expertly designed by our design engineers to fit seamlessly into your space, ensuring the safe, precise, and compliant raising and lowering of fixtures like chandeliers, artwork, and signage.
We proudly manufacture your winch system in our state-of-the-art facility in North Derbyshire. This allows us to apply the highest quality control standards and ensure that every system is as safe and reliable as possible.
Our dedicated service engineers are strategically located across the UK, ensuring optimal availability for our customers. Providing comprehensive chandelier maintenance capabilities, you can be sure your system is always safe and compliant.
Keeping You Compliant: LOLER Regulations Inspections
As a leading lifting equipment manufacturer, we make it our duty to keep up to date with current and upcoming legislation to ensure our customers are always compliant. Alongside PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998), which covers the inspection and maintenance requirements for workplace equipment, your lifting equipment must comply with LOLER.
The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) are designed to minimise the health and safety risks associated with lifting equipment used at work. It covers all equipment used for lifting and lowering loads, including attachments and accessories for anchoring, fixing, or supporting the equipment.
At Penny Engineering, we can help you understand your legal obligations and ensure your winch system complies with all relevant regulations, including PUWER and LOLER regulations inspections. From design and manufacture to installation and maintenance, our expert team is dedicated to delivering solutions that you can be sure are safe and compliant.
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Chandelier Maintenance FAQs
The frequency of winch inspections depends on the type of equipment, its usage, and regulatory requirements. Under LOLER lifting regulations, a thorough examination should be carried out at least every 6-12 months (dependant on whether examining lifting equipment or accessories), with more frequent checks for systems used in demanding environments.
Basic chandelier maintenance checks can be carried out by your trained staff. However, comprehensive inspections and maintenance must be completed by a certified professional to ensure compliance with safety standards and regulations.
If your lighting column lowering equipment fails an inspection, it should be taken out of service immediately. A professional lighting inspection and maintenance provider, like Penny Engineering, will be able to assess and repair any issues before resuming operation.
If you think you need a lighting inspection or you’re unsure if you do, you can contact our team via our website, phone, or email. Our team will talk to you about your assets and arrange a convenient time for the service. We can also set up reminders for required inspection and maintenance to ensure you’re always compliant.