PAT Testing information – useful information regarding portable appliance testing
How to best prepare your business for PAT testing Whilst you don't really need to do anything to prepare your business for PAT Testing, it's a good idea to at least be aware it's going to happen and let your staff know. If for no other reason than to reduce disruption. When staff don't know who we are we get asked by everyone "who are you?" and we have to [...]
PAT Testing Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ensuring Electrical Safety Welcome to our comprehensive guide on PAT testing, the essential process for ensuring electrical safety in any environment. Whether you're a business owner, facilities manager, or simply someone concerned about the safety of electrical appliances, this step-by-step guide will equip you with the knowledge and tools to confidently conduct PAT testing. We understand that electrical safety is paramount, and [...]
The benefits of working with a local Portable Appliance Tester Working with a PAT tester Just because you don’t have your own in-house Health and Safety specialist, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have access to the best health and safety services. The HSE is awash with useful information but where do you start? It's hard, you need to concentrate on what most affects your business, but not doing something because you didn't [...]
Plugs without Sleeved Pins stopped being made in 1984! Plugs without Sleeved Pins Plugs without sleeves on the pins - these plugs have not been manufactured in the UK for 40 years! This makes the plug very old, and you have to ask yourself, does it still meet British Standards? It may work perfectly fine, but imagine that's powering a lamp and your grandchild goes to unplug it [...]
Office PAT testing - how many appliances do we have? How many appliances do we have in our office? It happens a lot - we're contacted for a price for PAT testing an office; the prospective client tells us how much equipment they have, we price it and when we turn up to do the job, it's a lot more than expected. So how do we prevent this happening? When this happens [...]
Electric Heater Safety - including why you must not plug heaters into extension leads Electric Heater Safety Tips We cannot stress the importance of this enough - please, please, please do not, ever, plug electric heaters (of any kind) into extension leads. Please only plug heaters directly into the mains sockets. And please don't leave heaters on permanently, turn them off. If your room isn't warm enough consider a more efficient permanent [...]
What our PAT Testing Labels look like This isn't the biggest article you'll ever see about PAT testing labels, but there isn't really much to say on the topic! After all, they are just labels. Over the years we have used many different labels, but they have always been roughly the same size. We use to buy them from PAT Labels Online, who are an excellent supplier, [...]
Top 15 Tips for the safe use of electrical extension leads When we are PAT testing in offices, building sites and pretty much every business we see a lot of instances where socket extension leads are used incorrectly. Here we have put together a list of 15 top tips for the safe use of the extension lead. Electrical extension leads are often used incorrectly, just because it has 4 sockets doesn't mean they [...]
PAT Testing Fails PAT Testing Fails - these photographs are all of appliances that have failed our inspections when on site at clients, doing their electrical safety inspections. Because of website storage issues we can't post endless photographs here so to keep up to date with our PAT Testing fails, to see more plugs in a bad way and to see appliances that are dangerous, damaged, melted and so on, [...]
What you need to know about PAT Testing Pat Testing (also known as Portable Appliance Testing) is a way of checking your electrical equipment to see if it is SAFE. PAT Testing is an important part of your organisation's Health and Safety regime. It doesn't matter whether you're a small business or a large multi-site corporation; if you use electrical equipment in your business, then you have a responsibility to make sure it [...]
