There is no single UK colour calendar for thorough examination labels in the HSE guidance we print from. If your examiner uses a colour, it is their scheme.
Titan does not carry out thorough examinations. A label shows the dates and wording you supply. It does not replace the written report.
Do not invent a code
HSE mentions colour coding as one form of physical evidence that an inspection has taken place, alongside tagging or labelling, when smaller equipment moves between undertakings. It does not set out which colour means which quarter. A fleet that copies colours from a photo of another company’s truck can easily print a code its own competent person does not use.
The legal record is the written report. Regulation 9 and HSE’s thorough examination page require the examination itself, at the 6 or 12 month intervals or under an examination scheme, and after exceptional circumstances. The report includes the next due date. The sticker should show that date in words or figures a stranger can read, whether or not you also use a colour.
Read the date as well
Train the yard to read the printed date, not only the colour. A colour can be useful at a distance and still be wrong if last year’s stickers were never removed. HSE’s thorough examination page says the written report includes the next due date. Put that date on the sticker in a form a visitor can read without your colour chart. If you hire machines in from elsewhere, do not assume their colours match yours.
If you already have a scheme
Send the colours and the words. We will print them. We will not tell you that a colour proves the truck was examined. When the scheme changes, change the stickers. Leaving last year’s colour on the counterweight is how the yard walk becomes guesswork.