Haulage yards, builders' merchants unloading by crane, and any site running planned lifts.
Theory and practical assessment, carried out on the employer's own machine, on their site.
No UK government body issues a licence to operate a lorry loader, and no statute requires one.
The duty to train and assess competence sits with the employer, under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 section 2(2)(c) and PUWER 1998 regulation 9.
LOLER 1998 applies to a lorry loader used for lifting; the Approved Code of Practice L113, safe use of lifting equipment, requires every lift to be planned by a competent person, with thorough examination at intervals not exceeding 12 months, or 6 months where the equipment lifts people.
The lorry loader often works from the public highway, so the stabilisers are deployed and the ground bearing beneath them checked before a lift begins, and overhead lines are identified and cleared first.
The employer still authorises each operator in writing under PUWER 1998 regulation 9; the certificate, unit credit, records and site evidence statement are the evidence the employer relies on for that decision, not a substitute for it.