PAT Testing Newcastle & Tyneside

Whereever your business or school is in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyneside or surrounding areas, we can help, and being close means you get the best PAT Testing prices available. We also cover south and east Northumberland areas.

Maintaining safe electrical systems in all workplaces is essential to protect you and your team from accidents. Unsafe electric equipment is dangerous and can lead to shocks and fires, maintaining it through regular PAT Testing not only ensures a safe place to work, but also gives you peace of mind that you are complying with UK laws.

In addition to PAT testing we also help our clients with annual and monthly inspections of their Emergency Lighting, and their 3 or 5 yearly fixed wiring installation (EICR).

As a local provider, we like to help our clients improve their workplace safety, afterall you may not have time to consider your requirements, as we know, you are very busy with your own work.

Putting a structured plan in place for maintaining electrical equipment is essential for keeping Newcastle’s workplaces safe. Whether you get your PAT Testing done annually, less often (such as an office), or even more frequent (e.g. building site tools) we can help you manage your electrical safety systems.

We issue reminders when retests are due. We can even set you up with a Service Agreement which fixes the price for 5 years, and gets all future appointments booked in upfront, so you have priority.

When we do our inspections we automatically repair faulty plugs, fuses and cables to ensure an appliance is safe, and it’s always free.

As we’re based in North Shields we can easily visit your workplace to meet you and survey it before quoting or starting the job.

Calculating how many devices you have to PAT Test isn’t easy, we understand, and navigating all the compliance can be baffling. That’s why we are happy to visit you before or after quoting, before the job is done, to ensure your queries are answered. If you have too many appliances to count, a visit from us will be helpful. We’ll come to you, to count the devices you have, then quote based on that assumption.

Your PAT Testing Certificate Report is a compliant document, that you will need if there ever is an incident. You’ll also need it for ISO, Ofsted, CQC, CHAS, Safecontractor and so on, so its essential it includes everything you need, and you get it quickly. That’s why we issue these within 48 hours of the job completing, it most cases you will get it the very same day.

From our office in North Shields we cover the whole Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyneside and surrounding areas including Sunderland, Durham, and Northumberland. We have engineers based throughout the region. We work with hundreds of businesses in Tyneside, from offices to shops, hotels to salons, building firms and industrial units.  So whereever you are, whatever you do, if you have multiple sites or just one, we can help.

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PAT testing is farily inobtrusive, and when we work together minimal disruption is guarenteed. We do need to turn equipment off and unplug it to test it but the process is quite quick, so not much downtime. We do repairs as we come across them, so you don’t need to worry about delays due to faults, and every test produces results that are recorded into a fully compliant report which documents every device tested, maintenance and the device location in your premises.

You are legally required to maintain safe electrical equipment for continued use and to prevent danger occuring. In the event of an accident occuring, for an investigation you need to provide evidence that your devices were safe, and that you have done everything you can to ensure this. Regular Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) finds faults and fixes them, ensuring dangers are prevented, and the accompanying report ensures your compliance.

PAT testing should be repeated as often as is necessary to prevent danger occuring. A risk assessment is a good way to work out the risks, which help to determine appropriate frequency. We can also guide you based on our vast experience. Typically, site managers opt for annual PAT tests. With DRA PAT Testing we put you in our reminder system, so when tests are due again we contact you to arrange a retest date.

Assuming you purchased the new appliances from a reputable source, they do not usually require PAT testing immediately, and should be ok to wait until your next scheduled test assuming that is within 12 months of purchase. We do however recommend that the device be visually inspected before use. However, if you are in doubt at all, get it tested, for peace of mind.