Keep up to date with all the latest news and requirements relating to PAT testing in and around Birmingham and Solihull
Halloween has been and gone but we experience horrors all year round. With several years of PAT Testing experience we can honestly say that we still get a ‘shock’ when coming across some the horrors we find in care homes, factories, churches, restaurants, student accommodation and let properties to name just a few. Over the…
It is the responsibility of the owner to ensure regular PAT testing for care homes. To ensure the safety of your residents it is recommended that in addition to Annual PAT testing you should visually inspect all plugs, sockets, casings and cables for any wear or damage. Similar to hotels, regular PAT testing for care…
When looking into student accommodation, electrical appliance safety should be one of your main priorities. We’d be right in saying that students who are living away for the first time are probably thinking about others things rather than the appliances in their residence. Our advice would be to consider the condition of the appliances in…
Any portable appliance owned and used by staff, students or visitors to the college, university or school should be PAT Tested before they are allowed to be used on the premises. Your duty of care is to all staff, students and visitors to the organisation where portable appliances are concerned. When anyone brings a new…
PAT Testing your electrical equipment whether it is in your home, school, rented property, factory or office will help to identity whether they are faulty or counterfeit and will allow you to make an executive decision whether you keep or disregard the electrical device. With online buying overtaking the high street shops it has meant…
Although it is not a legal requirement to officially PAT Test your equipment if you are a landlord in England and Wales it is however considered as an essential procedure to ensure the safety of your tenants when using any portable appliances that you supply. It is a legal requirement to ensure that the electric…
Most offices and educational facilities (schools, colleges, universities etc) will have some kind of server equipment on site. This varies from a single PC and monitor up to many racks of switches, UPS, firewalls and other dedicated equipment. We are often asked whether we need to PAT Test server and communications equipment. Server equipment is…
Schools and colleges are at the top of their game now when it comes to health and safety, so PAT testing in schools is a fundamental part of the safety procedure. In some schools, the job of checking their portable appliances falls on a member of staff that has completed a PAT course, but it…
Whether it is a legal requirement or not to have your portable appliances PAT tested is a question we get asked quite a lot. In this article we will explore the facts surrounding this question to explain why your company, school or property’s portable appliances should be PAT tested. There is currently no legal requirement…
