PAT Testing Colchester, Essex and Suffolk

What is Pat Testing?

PAT testing is short for “Portable Appliance Testing” and is a process of testing electrical equipment to show that it is safe to use in offices, hotels, hospitals, care homes, libraries and any building where staff are employed.

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It short, it's a good idea to make sure PAT tests are done regularly as it maintains good practice to keep your staff safe, but also for insurance reasons.  The regulations below give more information: -

If there is an issue or incident involving an electrical appliance, even though there is no legal requirement to test appliances regularly, you risk being fined £5,000 or more or even serving a prison sentence if the cause of an incident is  untested or unsafe electrical appliances.  Fines can be higher and some have served two years in prison for endangering health and safety.  Although portable appliance testing isn’t legally required, it does give you protection and also helps with insurance.

Insurance companies often require to pat testing electrical appliances for businesses

Insurance companies often insist upon PAT tests in business and hospitality  settings before insuring premises. This means that portable appliance testing is essential for many businesses where portable electrical appliances and fixed appliances are on site.  If you do have a claim relating to an electrical appliance that hasn’t been PAT tested regularly, it can affect insurance claims and settlement figures.

We can PAT test all equipment and also test emergency lighting

We carry out portable appliance testing on a variety of classes of electrical appliances for offices, retailers, property developers, hotels, landlords, care homes, schools, nurseries and other commercial premises. Details of the different classes of electrical appliances we test can be found below.

Our PAT testers are qualified and DBS checked

PAT testers working for us are City and Guild’s qualified, fully insurance and DBS checked so that they can work in care homes, schools, nurseries and hospitals.

We can test Emergency lights

Fuse PAT testing offers a service to test your emergency lighting.  It can fail when there is a breakdown of the supply to a building and so emergency supplies must always be independent of the service into the building.

Who we provide our pat testing services to

We work with offices, hotels, the hospitality industry, retailers, schools and nurseries, care homes, offices, auction houses and industrial and commercial clients and can offer favourable prices for multiple appliance PAT testing. We are flexible and try very hard not to disrupts rooms, staff or sites when testing portable appliances.

FUSE PAT Testing will provide you with a quality, reliable and cost-effective service for pat testing your portable appliances. Our pat testers are qualified and professional we offer competitive pat testing prices so Contact Us.

What is PAT Testing?

Portable Appliance Testing (PAT Testing) is an important part of your business's health & safety policy and it means that all all electrical appliances should be checked for safety.
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PAT Testing Legal Requirements

Current UK legislation demands that landlords and employers must ensure that all supplied portable electrical appliances are safe and conform to certain UK safety regulations.
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What does FUSE do?

FUSE PAT Testing  provides a quality, reliable portable appliance testing service in Essex and Suffolk.  Our pat testers are City and Guilds qualified, professionals and we offer extremely competitive prices from 60p per appliance.
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What appliances require PAT Testing?

What appliances require PAT Testing

Most appliances that use electricity require PAT Testing in order to confirm with the IET Code of Practice for In-Service Inspection but the following list gives more detail.

  • Portable Appliances (under 18kg with no carry handle)
  • Moveable equipment (under 18kg, not fixed)
  • Handheld Equipment (Hair dryers, drills, soldering irons)
  • Stationary Equipment (Over 18kg with no carry handle)
  • Fixed Equipment (Fastened to a surface such as towel rails & heaters)
  • Built-in appliances and equipment (equipment installed in a cupboards)
  • IT equipment (computers, printers, telephones)
  • Extension leads

 

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Classes of Electrical Appliances for PAT testing

There are a variety of classes for PAT tests on electrical appliances.

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Class 1

This type of electrical equipment will most likely have exposed live parts and basic insulation, such as desktop computers or fan heaters. It includes any equipment with an earth connection from the mains.

Class 2a

Generally, this class of electrical appliance will have two layers of insulation and exposed metalwork, such as a desktop calculator or dictation machine.

Class 2b

This class of electrical appliance may have exposed metal work that is unearthed and separated from live parts by 2 layers of insulation and would include electrical equipment such as a power drill, or circular saw.

Class 3

Electrical appliances in this class are powered by less than 50vAC and includes basic insulation where none of the metalwork is unearthed; examples would include a laptop computer, tablet, or mobile phone.