💼 PAT Testing for Offices & Businesses in Newcastle
Keep Your Office Safe and Compliant with DRA PAT Testing
Every office depends on electrical equipment — computers, printers, chargers, kettles, heaters — and every one of them needs to be safe.
At DRA PAT Testing, we provide professional PAT testing for offices and businesses across Newcastle, North Tyneside and the North East, helping you meet your safety and insurance requirements with minimal disruption.
We’re trusted by hundreds of local companies — from small start-ups and co-working spaces to large offices and industrial sites — for reliable service, flexible scheduling and clear, competitive pricing.
⚡ Why office-based Businesses Need PAT Testing
Regular PAT testing in your office helps you:
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✅ Meet your legal and insurance obligations
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✅ Protect staff and visitors from electrical hazards
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✅ Prevent downtime caused by faulty equipment
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✅ Demonstrate compliance during audits or inspections
Our experienced engineers test everything from single-site offices to multi-building operations — and we work around your schedule so your team can keep working without interruption.
🕒 Flexible Testing Around Your Working Day
We know how important uptime is. That’s why we offer early-morning, evening and weekend appointments, so testing never gets in the way of your business.
Whether you need testing across one office or multiple sites, we’ll plan everything for you — efficiently, quietly and safely.
We’ve got so much experience PAT testing in offices, we can easily plan a job once we have seen the layout – if you staff use ‘banks of desks’ taking all the team off that bank for testing in bulk means less disruption and quicker testing. If we start early, like 7am, we can get important areas done first before users get to work.
📋 What’s included
- Full visual inspection of every appliance
- Earth continuity, insulation and polarity testing
- Pass/Fail labelling for each item, with unique ID numbers
- Digital PDF report and compliant PAT testing certificate including electrical test results
- Free advice on any issues found
- Free minor repairs including replacement plugs and fuses
We specialise in PAT Testing office equipment
PAT testing in offices is our bread and butter; we can test extension leads, surge protectors, chargers and computers all without risk to you, as we use specialist testers intended to be used with sensitive equipment.
We also have the capability of doing thermal image checks on servers – a rarity in the PAT testing community, meaning no need to shutdown the server unless absolutely necessary, and if that is a requirement, we can do it outside your normal working hours.
Do you have staff working from home?
If they can’t bring their kit in to the office on testing day, we can arrange to visit their home address. A service we perfected during the Covid lockdown is still used today.
📍 Office PAT Testing You Can Rely On
We’re based in Newcastle upon Tyne and provide PAT testing throughout: North Tyneside, Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Gateshead, Wallsend, Jesmond, Heaton, and surrounding areas. We also have engineers covering Cramlington, Sunderland, Seaham and East Durham, Durham City, Washington, Chester Le Street, Middlesbrough and all other North East locations.
We understand the needs of local businesses — reliable service, clear communication, and flexible timings that fit around your workday.
We also have solid links with other reputable trade partners to be able to guide you in other areas of electrical safety, fire prevention and workplace health and safety.
💬 What our Clients Say
📞 Book your local PAT test Today
Protect your business, your staff, and your customers with professional PAT testing from Newcastle’s most trusted team.
Get in touch today for a free, no-obligation PAT Testing quote.
👉🏻 Call 0191 666 1009 or email [email protected]
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10 Top tips to improve Office electrical safety
- Make sure cables are not under carpets to avoid damage
- Make sure you know what plug is for what appliance, so it can be quickly disconnected if there is an accident
- Don’t hide sockets behind filing cabinets, shelves and photocopiers
- Make sure appliances have adequate ventilation
- If using desk trunking, don’t just force the cables in there, place them neatly to avoid tension
- Don’t put liquids (eg drinks) on top of electrical appliances
- Don’t position appliances where it needs the lead to be stretched
- Make sure equipment in use has all its safety features (like sides)
- Reduce the amount of extension leads you’re using, and don’t daisy chain them
- Keep cables tidy or use our cable management service
PAT testing helps to prevent accidents in the office
This socket was found in an office; as you can see from the brown marks, the heater that was plugged into it, had caused overheating of the socket. It had overheated because these sockets were only intended to be used with low power drawing IT equipment, not electric heaters. Things like this often get missed by users of equipment in the office. This could very easily have become something far more serious such as a fire, had we not spotted it when we did.
Check out this article on why you shouldn’t plug electric heaters into extension leads
DRA PAT Testing provides portable appliance testing for offices, workplaces, and commercial premises across Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Gateshead and the surrounding North East area.