Octav helps inspection bodies, ground handling companies and airport equipment departments inspect every piece of ground support equipment, run their campaigns airport by airport and keep the due dates of vehicles and lifting accessories alike. One platform for the fleet, the report and the relationship with the operator.
Container loaders, catering trucks, PRM vehicles, tractors, ground power units, slings: an airport fleet mixes very different equipment, spread over several airports and only available between two turnarounds. Octav brings the fleet, the checklists, the campaigns, the photos and the reports together in a single tool.
At an airport, you never inspect one vehicle: you inspect dozens, between two turnarounds, whenever they are available. Octav opens the campaign once, filters the equipment by airport and produces a separate report for each vehicle.
Under French rules, a catering truck that lifts its crew is inspected every six months, an ordinary lifting appliance every twelve. Both rhythms run across one fleet: each family carries its own interval and Octav computes the next due date, vehicle by vehicle.
Slings and accessories move from one vehicle to another and from one airport to another. Tracked in batches, with their own due date, they no longer slip through between two campaigns.
Octav helps you file every vehicle, open the right checklist at the right airport, track lifting accessories and hand the client one report per vehicle as soon as it is closed.
Ground support equipment is filed under its own airport families, kept apart from your other sectors. Each family carries its own inspection interval and checklist.
A container loader, a catering truck and a baggage tractor are not inspected on the same points: the family of the vehicle decides which checklist opens at inspection time.
The campaign is opened at client level, then filtered airport by airport: the inspector only sees the equipment of the site they are on, without creating one job per vehicle.
Slings, spreader beams, shackles and webbing straps are tracked in batches, each with its own inspection due date, alongside the vehicles they serve.
Vehicle identification, inspected points, observations, photos, conclusion and signature: the report comes out under your company's branding and joins the vehicle's history.
The fleet is imported from an Excel file — fleet number, type of vehicle, make, airport — and the Octav team supports you through the migration.
Not all ground support equipment falls under the same rules. Vehicles that lift a load or people are lifting appliances; the others are inspected against the checklist chosen by the inspection body. Octav files each one in its family, with the matching checklist and due date.
Lifting function
Periodic inspection of lifting equipment under the French order of 1 March 2004.
Towing and servicing
Inspected against the checklist chosen by the inspection body, based on the manufacturer's instructions and the EN 1915 and EN 12312 standards.
Accessories
Periodic inspection every twelve months, tracked in batches in Octav.
In France, a piece of ground support equipment that lifts a load or people is a lifting appliance. Its periodic inspection falls under articles R4323-23 to R4323-27 of the Labour Code and the order of 1 March 2004 on the inspection of lifting appliances and accessories.
| Equipment or situation | When | Reference text |
|---|---|---|
| Powered appliances that lift people or a workstation (catering trucks, PRM vehicles, aerial work platforms) | Every six months | Order of 1 March 2004 |
| Forklift trucks and other appliances listed in article 20 of the order | Every six months | Order of 1 March 2004 |
| Other lifting appliances | Every twelve months | Order of 1 March 2004 |
| Lifting accessories (slings, spreader beams, shackles) | Every twelve months | Order of 1 March 2004 |
| Return to service | After dismantling and reassembly, a modification that may affect safety, or an accident caused by a failure | Order of 1 March 2004 |
The inspection is carried out by a competent person, who may or may not belong to the company, and its results are recorded in the safety register. That person assigns each vehicle to its category, and therefore to its interval. The EN 1915 and EN 12312 standards on aircraft ground support equipment are the technical reference for the design of the vehicles.
Octav is not an inspection body: it is the tool you use to perform, record and report these inspections. For lifting equipment outside airports, see ourlifting equipment page, or our page onperiodic inspection.
Informative summary as of 5 October 2026. Only the texts published on Légifrance are authoritative.
Octav adapts to your teams’ field reality and to the way you prepare, carry out and deliver your inspections.
GSE inspection software should handle a fleet spread over several airports, one checklist per type of vehicle, slings and lifting accessories, two inspection rhythms — six and twelve months — and one report per vehicle handed to the client. Octav brings these together in a single platform, with families and checklists dedicated to ground support equipment.
A piece of ground support equipment falls under the periodic inspection of lifting equipment (VGP) as soon as it lifts a load or people: container and pallet loaders, catering trucks, PRM vehicles, aerial work platforms, forklift trucks. Vehicles that tow or supply power, such as tractors and ground power units, are inspected against the checklist chosen by the inspection body and the manufacturer's instructions.
The French order of 1 March 2004 sets the periodic inspection of lifting appliances at twelve months. It drops to six months for powered appliances that carry people or lift a workstation, and for the appliances listed in its article 20, including forklift trucks. Lifting accessories are inspected every twelve months. In Octav, each equipment family carries its own interval.
In Octav, the campaign is opened at client level, then filtered airport by airport: the inspector finds the list of vehicles on the site they are working on, opens the checklist of each one and closes its report. Every vehicle keeps its own report in its history.
Yes. Slings, spreader beams, shackles and webbing straps are tracked in batches, each with its own annual inspection due date, alongside the same client's ground support equipment.
Yes. The fleet is imported from an Excel file — fleet number, type of vehicle, make, airport — and the Octav team supports you through the migration of your data.
No. The periodic inspection is carried out by a competent person, who may or may not belong to the company. Octav inspects no equipment and grants no approval: it is the tool the inspection body or the equipment department uses to perform, record and report its inspections.
Equipment families, their interval and the associated checklist are set from your own settings. For a type of vehicle that fits none of the existing checklists, a custom checklist can be added on quotation.
Book a demo: we will show you a campaign at an airport, the checklist of a vehicle and the report handed to the client, on real cases from your own activity.
