What is Pat Testing

The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) as well as many E.C Directives relating to workplace safety, put all the onus on the employer to ensure that he creates and maintains a safe working environment. This includes ensuring any electrical tools or electrical equipment supplied are safe and in good working order.

Section 4 (2) of the Electricity at Work Regulation (1989) focuses on this "Duty of Care" in relation to any machinery connected to the electricity supply via a removable plug.

To assist companies to comply with this legislation, the electrical industry has developed a range to tests to an industry standard specification. This ensures that all portable appliances are checked by a trained engineer to ensure they comply with the pre-defined standard, and are safe for the purpose they are designed for.

Each appliance is comprehensively tested by a fully trained AH Electrical technician, who will certify that the appliance conforms to the current required specification. A detailed portable appliance test report is then produced confirming the status of each appliance.

AH Electrical can carry out Portable Appliance Testing on any Portable Appliance including, Computers, Printers, Shredders, Photocopiers and all other office electrical appliances.

All technicians are fully trained in the IEE Wiring Regulations and our system ensures that you are provided with all the documentation and certification that you require, to demonstrate to any legislative body that you have fulfilled your obligations as an employer in regards to portable appliance testing.

As you would expect from AH Electrical, all portable appliance testing work is carried out with the emphasis on quality and customer service.