What does a PUWER thorough examination actually cost?
There's no fixed PUWER inspection cost, because no two jobs are the same - a single hand-held power tool and a production line machine with guarding and interlocks take a different amount of an engineer surveyor's time to examine properly. What drives your price is the equipment type, how many items, how accessible they are, and where you're based. Send us your equipment list and we'll give you an accurate quote.
Why there's no fixed price
Plenty of providers advertise a "from £X" figure. This is a marketing number and not a real quote - it almost never survives contact with the actual site, and it either undercuts a straightforward job or gets padded out once the provider sees what's really involved. A PUWER thorough examination takes as long as it takes to do properly; pricing it before knowing the equipment means guessing, and guesses aren't compliance.
What actually drives the price
What's included in every PULO quote
There's no hidden extras once we're on site: a full written Report of Thorough Examination meeting every legal requirement, photographic evidence, and every defect classified as either safety-critical (with a repair deadline) or other. You can see exactly what that looks like on our sample report. What you're quoted is what you pay so nothing gets added afterwards for producing the paperwork.
How to get an accurate quote
Send us a list of what needs examining - equipment type, roughly how many items, and your site location - and we'll come back with a proper quote. If you're not sure whether something falls under PUWER or LOLER, tell us what the equipment does and we'll work it out with you - most sites end up needing both.
Every quote is scoped personally by Ryan Leavesley MSOE MBES.