Why LEEA Guidance Matters
LEEA guidance documents are the voice of industry. They represent collective expertise, practical experience, and professional judgement from across our global membership. When developed collaboratively, they provide clarity where regulation leaves room for interpretation, consistency where practice varies, and confidence where risk must be managed.
But guidance only works when it reflects reality. That's why we consult early, openly, and often.
Your Voice Shapes Industry Standards
Every LEEA guidance document exists to serve you — whether you're operating hire fleets, conducting inspections, managing equipment, or ensuring workplace safety. Your day-to-day experience reveals what works, what doesn't, and what needs refining.
When you contribute to a consultation, you're not just answering questions. You're:
- Ensuring guidance is practical: not just technically sound, but usable in real-world operations
- Identifying blind spots: areas of ambiguity, unintended consequence, or regional variation that may not be visible from a purely theoretical perspective
- Protecting your interests: shaping standards that you'll be working with for years to come
- Strengthening the industry: helping LEEA maintain its position as a credible, member-led authority
How We Develop Guidance
LEEA's structured approach to guidance development ensures that member input is embedded from the start, not retrofitted at the end.
- Stage 1 Consultations focus on scope, intent, and direction. We're asking: is this the right approach before we commit to detailed drafting?
- Your feedback matters most at this stage because it determines whether we proceed, pivot, or pause. Once we move to detailed technical review, the framework is set. This is when your strategic input has the greatest impact.
What Happens Next?
Every response is reviewed by LEEA's technical team. Feedback is analysed for patterns, tested against regulation and standards, and used to inform the next phase of work, whether that's refinement, reconsideration, or wider consultation.
We don't publish guidance without member confidence. If a consultation reveals fundamental concerns, we adjust. Your participation ensures we get it right.
Our live consultations are below, click the relevant link to share your expertise:
LEEA 065: Guidance on lifting equipment examination schemes for hire companies
- Purpose: Guidance on lifting equipment examination schemes for hire companies, addressing how hire operations demonstrate LOLER compliance through different examination approaches including fleet rotation, pre-hire examination, and two-part schemes
- Closing Date: 13th March 2026
LEEA 073: Guidance on the technical requirements for fall arrest and restraint anchor slings
- Purpose: Guidance on the technical requirements for fall arrest and restraint anchor slings, ensuring these critical safety components are designed, manufactured, and used in accordance with relevant standards and regulations.
- Closing Date: 13th March 2026
LEEA 055: Guide to the verification of spreader beams, lifting beams, and lifting frames
- Purpose: Guidance on the design, manufacture, and verification of spreader beams, lifting beams, and lifting frames, providing manufacturers, design engineers, and competent persons with a clear, proportionate framework for verification by calculation and test or by test only, covering technical file requirements, in-service examination, and repair and modification responsibilities.
- Closing Date: 13th March
LEEA 077: Guidance on the verification of crane systems using the allowable stress method
- Purpose: Guidance on the verification of bridge and gantry crane structures using the allowable stress method, providing structural engineers and SMEs with a practical, EN 13001-1 compliant pathway for crane design and verification without requiring full transition to the limit state method.
- Closing Date: 13th March
LEEA 091: Guidance on the use of soft steel slings
- Purpose: Guidance on the safe use of soft steel slings in the entertainment industry, addressing legal requirements, roles and responsibilities, documentation, marking, inspection intervals, and safe use practices for a product type not covered by existing sling standards, developed in collaboration with the LEEA Entertainment Working Group, NRAG, PLASA, and ABTT.
- Closing Date: 13th March
LEEA 092: Guidance on the inspection of soft steel slings
- Purpose: Guidance on the in-service inspection and thorough examination of soft steel slings used in the entertainment industry, establishing specific pre-use, interim, and thorough examination criteria for a product type whose wire rope core construction requires different inspection and rejection standards to those applicable to man-made fibre round slings.
- Closing Date: 13th March
Your expertise is essential. Whether you work directly with the equipment or systems covered, or your role touches on inspection, compliance, or risk management, your input strengthens the final output.
Why Your Participation Matters
LEEA exists to support you. We develop guidance because the industry needs it, and the industry includes you.
When you take 10–15 minutes to complete a consultation, you're investing in standards that will support safer work, clearer expectations, and stronger professional credibility.
We respect your time. We value your insight. And we're committed to making sure your voice is heard.
If you have questions about any consultation, or would like to discuss guidance development more broadly, please contact our technical team at technical@leeaint.com.
