PAT Testing Lytham St Annes : We provide portable appliance testing to enable businesses in Lytham St Annes to comply with the Electricity at Work and insurance Regulations.
If your company requires PAT Testing in Lytham St Annes or surrounding areas, please feel free to call us on 07703269342 or fill out the contact form below if you would like a chat or a visit to discuss your PAT testing requirements.
We at PAT testing Northwest offer portable appliance testing across Lytham St Annes and surrounding areas.
We are here to help you with any query’s or questions you may have.
The testing of the electrical appliances in your work place is essential for yourself, your clients and your employees. Generally insurance companies request a PAT test be carried out.
PAT Testing will also comply with your companies obligations under the Health & Safety at Work Regulations and the Electricity at Work Regulations.
Although there is currently no strict legal requirement for PAT testing.
The Government however has put regulations into place that require the maintenance and safety of electrical appliances, subsequently the most effective way to ensure that these regulations are met is through PAT testing.
The UK Health and Safety Executive along with insurance companies will expect you to perform PAT testing to ensure that you are compliant with certain regulations including:
Not complying with the above mentioned regulations can result in fines up to £5,000 and/or six months imprisonment. Fines have been seen to go as high as £20,000 and offences heard in the Crown Court have carried sentences of more than 2 years imprisonment in additional to unlimited financial penalties. So even though PAT testing itself is not legally required, it simply helps you to protect yourself by ensuring that you are complying with these regulations.
Claims that PAT testing is required by law and that the client is breaking the law by not having it done are simply not true. The law does require however that employers, including self-employed, ensure that all electrical equipment that they provide in their business is safe and properly maintained. This means that PAT testing is a critical part of your company’s health and safety and should be considered part of a solution to your safety concerns.
PAT testing provides the most effective way to identify defects that can come with use. Faults in electrical equipment pose a potential hazard, particularly if they are not repaired readily. Even though PAT testing itself is not required by law, the consequences of electrical faults should be considered carefully.
Any appliance that uses a flexible cable or plug and socket qualifies as a portable appliance. In other words, if you have an appliance that has a plug that is intended to be connected to a wall socket or generator, it qualifies as needing to be PAT tested.
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2) Guidelines for Testing :
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6) Documentation :
Many Companies say on their website’s that they will PAT Test for 50p, 75p or £1.00 per test, this is only possible when these companies place labels on everything as fast as possible without actually unplugging or testing anything.
Always be concerned if a company can test more than 30 items an hour (as they won`t be testing anything and you are just paying for labels)
We have a minimum charge of £60.00 (within a 10 mile radius of our Garstang offices) which includes testing for 15 items, thereafter its £1.50 per item tested, price includes free fuse and plug replacement if required, there is no extra charge for out of hours or weekend testing.
