✅ Portable Appliance Testing in Airports – Why It Matters
Airports are fast-paced, high-traffic, and high-risk environments. With thousands of people passing through daily — and countless appliances in use across terminals, security areas, shops, and offices — electrical safety is absolutely essential.
PAT testing (Portable Appliance Testing) helps ensure that every electrical item is safe to use, reducing the risk of fire, injury, and disruption. It’s also a key part of maintaining regulatory compliance.
🛠️ Who We PAT Test at Airports
We provide professional PAT testing for:
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Terminal offices & operations teams
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Retail outlets, food courts & cafés
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Airline lounges & check-in desks
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Security screening areas & baggage halls
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Airport contractors & on-site engineers
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Temporary kiosks, pop-ups & exhibition spaces
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Airside and landside equipment (where authorised)
If it plugs in — from laptops to kettles to extension leads — we’ll test it.
🔒 Airside-Approved, DBS Checked & Fully Insured
We understand the heightened security and access requirements within airport environments. Our engineers are:
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✅ Fully qualified and insured
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✅ DBS checked (enhanced)
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✅ Experienced in working in high-security areas
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✅ Able to work around flight schedules and operational restrictions
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✅ Equipped with ID, PPE, and airport-specific clearance (if required)
We’re happy to liaise with airport authorities, facilities teams, and H&S managers in advance to plan safe, efficient testing.
We have worked Airside at Newcastle International Airport for a number of companies, and Teesside International Airport for Durham Police, so have experience in this area and understand what is involved.
Airport PAT testing
Our PAT testing engineers are experienced and professional, providing a comprehensive inspection and testing service for all your electrical appliances. All our work complies with the latest HSE requirements and industry standards. A regular PAT testing programme helps you to ensure your electrical system is safe for continued use.
We provide an efficient and professional PAT testing service with minimal disruption to your business, with free remedial repairs and promptly issued PAT test Certificates, to help you comply with the latest electrical safety regulations.
Airport PAT testing should be repeated as often as is necessary based on a risk assessment of the equipment in use; an initial inspection by us can count as a good starting point for the assessment, from there between us we should be able to set up an effective retest period.
Our Airport PAT Testing Service
PAT testing in Airports isn’t straight forward, and we don’t profess to have loads of experience, but we do have some.
We have worked airside at both Newcastle International and Teesside airports, for our clients, and worked in internal offices and shops.
We have been security checked for work with Durham Police, so we pass all the necessaries that you’ll need and we understand about reducing toolkits for security screening.
In almost every workplace today we have kettles, fridges, computers, printers, phone chargers and so on; some businesses also have tools, vacuum cleaners, and more high risk equipment.
Most appliances will operate on 230v but we can also do tests on 110v and 415v appliances, as well as fixed equipment, and have the capability to do your fixed wiring inspections (EICR) too.
As an experienced PAT testing company we can operate in all environments, so even if your business is not exclusively office we can still help you.
- Free and automatic remedial repairs
- Free replacement plugs & fuses
- Free cable management to ensure efficiency, safety and tidiness
- Minimal disruption guaranteed
If you have server systems we can work with you to test them out of hours, once in a five year spell (they don’t need doing every year either), and can check them visually or even with thermal imagery at regular intervals. Some companies say they will do a ‘full visual inspection’ on your server but if they can’t unplug it they can’t fully inspect it.
Regular PAT testing can help you reduce insurance premiums, as it equates to a risk assessment of your electrical equipment, helping to determine the safety levels in your business, and the need for more or less frequent inspections.
Regular PAT tests are considered to be the most effective way to comply with your obligations for workplace health and safety, and electrical regulations – failure to ensure electrical equipment is safe can be considered to be a failure to comply with the law.
PAT Testing Quality Standard
DRA PAT Testing Limited are founder members of the UK’s Portable Appliance Testing Trade Association. All our work complies with the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Code of Practice for Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment.
To Book a PAT Test
Use our online booking form, or to discuss your requirements, or to arrange a PAT test use the form above, or call us on 0191 666 1009, or if you prefer email [email protected]
PAT Testing for North East workplaces
DRA PAT Testing is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, but our engineers are able to come to your location anywhere in the North East. So if you require your electrical equipment testing, get in touch with us today.