Workplace & Office PAT Testing in Newcastle & the North East

PAT Testing for Office Environments

Offices often contain a wide range of electrical equipment including computers, monitors, printers, kitchen appliances and extension leads. Regular Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) helps organisations ensure that equipment remains safe for employees and visitors.

DRA PAT Testing supports offices and corporate workplaces across Newcastle, Sunderland and the wider North East with professional, efficient electrical appliance testing.

Our experienced engineers work with businesses of all sizes, from small offices through to large multi-floor workplaces.

PAT Testing for Multi-Site Organisations

Many organisations operate from multiple offices across the North East.

Our team can coordinate PAT testing across several locations, helping facilities managers and operations teams manage electrical compliance more easily.

We can schedule testing across multiple sites and provide clear reporting for your records.

Typical appliances tested include:

• Computers and monitors
• Printers and photocopiers
• Kitchen appliances
• Extension leads and adaptors
• Desk lamps
• Chargers and power supplies
• Office equipment

Electrical Compliance Services

Alongside PAT testing we can also support businesses with wider electrical compliance requirements, including:

• Fixed Wiring Inspections (EICR)
• Emergency Lighting Testing
• Thermal Imaging

Our aim is to help organisations maintain safe and compliant workplaces.

When it comes to PAT testing for businesses, you need a company that understands both compliance and convenience. At DRA PAT Testing, we specialise in providing professional, reliable, and fully certified PAT testing services to offices, landlords, and commercial premises across the North East.

With over 16 years of experience and more than 400 five-star Google reviews, we’ve built a reputation for quality, efficiency, and outstanding customer service.

We know that in a commercial environment, time is money — so we plan our work around your schedule to minimise disruption. Our engineers are fully qualified, uniformed, and trained to work safely and neatly in office, retail, and industrial settings. Every test is carried out using calibrated equipment, and you’ll receive clear reports, compliance certificates, and reminders for your next test — making it easy to stay compliant year after year.

Unlike many low-cost providers, we don’t rush through the job. Each appliance is properly inspected and tested to the latest IET Code of Practice, ensuring that your business is protected, your staff are safe, and your legal responsibilities are fully met.

Whether you have a small office or a large multi-site operation, DRA PAT Testing delivers the same professional service and personal care every time.

As a Facilities Manager, you need contractors you can depend on — professionals who turn up on time, work safely, and get the job done without disruption. At DRA PAT Testing, we understand the pressures of managing multiple sites, tenants and safety obligations. That’s why we make PAT testing simple, organised and fully compliant.

We’ll coordinate directly with you or your site teams to plan testing around your operations, providing clear reports, compliance certificates and ongoing reminders. Our engineers are experienced in working within live commercial environments — from busy offices and manufacturing floors to residential blocks and housing association sites.

With DRA PAT Testing, you get more than just a testing service — you get a long-term safety partner you can rely on to help keep your sites compliant and your people safe, year after year.

It would be great to have a chat about your requirements, please get in touch with us today. All our details are on our Contact Page, here.

This recruitment company from Newcastle came to us with the predicament of how they manage all their computers (over 400 desks), to keep them all safe without disrupting the staff, and to keep the costs down.

They were based over 2 floors of their office building, so what we recommended was that we split them into two jobs; do one floor in year one, and the other floor in year two, then alternate them so we did a floor every year, so that floor was tested every 2 years.

In addition to that we did them on a weekend, so that the staff were not disrupted.

During Covid, we even visited some staff at their homes and tested equipment on the door step or from the back of our vans! We have worked with this company since 2014.

This well known building in Newcastle has many different areas, all managed separately, and some public facing. All doing very specialist work from educating the public, to scientific research, to maintenance to managing the facility.

They had previously been tested by a national company who although sold a good service didn’t really provide that. They sent engineers in overnight. Without the sites own staff available a lot of equipment got missed and they managed to do the full site in only a couple of nights. The facilities and maintenance teams knew they had missed a lot and cut a lot of corners.

We knew they had a shut down period in September, so we proposed to do the public facing areas then, and the other areas throughout the year. We now do 6 visits each year, and have split the centre into sections, so everywhere gets checked correctly and nothing gets missed.

We actually charge double what the previous company did, but the service is very happy with our work and we are now in the third year (2026) of working together.

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.