Plant workflow
Plant is where the paperwork and the site drift apart fastest. PlanOps puts the check at the machine, holds a machine with a stop-work defect and keeps its certificates and due dates with it.
The complete run
Owned, hired and subcontractors’ plant go on one register with the hire company and fleet and serial numbers. Lifting equipment with no LOLER record is flagged straight away.
Capture the LOLER or PUWER certificate and the inspection schedule is set from it. The certificate sits with the machine, not in someone’s camera roll.
Each machine carries a QR sticker. The operator scans it on their own phone, with no app, and sees whether the machine may be used and what is due.
The pre-use check for that type of machine, on the phone, before work starts. A machine never checked shows amber until it is.
Defects carry a severity, a description and a photo. An open stop-work defect stops the next check from starting until someone clears it.
Off-hiring a machine closes its check schedules and stops the escalations, so plant that left last month stops generating overdue checks.
Two ways to start
Free · one machine
Go to plantregister.co.uk and add one machine from its hire note. No account is needed.
Full workflow · every machine
Reference
Pre-use checks, PUWER inspections and LOLER thorough examinations: who does each, how often and what is recorded.
A printable weekly check sheet for each common type of machine. Free to print and use.
The columns a plant and equipment register needs and why, with a free Excel template.