With many years of experience in portable appliance testing, Chelmsford PAT Testing is a business offering professional services to customers throughout the local area.
Helping clients to ensure electrical equipment is safe, the company provides businesses with professional appliance testing by using up to date calibrated equipment and expert staff. The service is intended to help you meet your legal obligation under current regulations.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that a Leeds firm has been fined for safety failings after a trainee technician needed skin grafts after receiving an electric shock while using unsafe testing equipment.
A 22-year-old Bradford man spent five days in hospital with injuries to his arms and chest after the incident. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated and prosecuted Wilson Power Solutions after finding a series of safety failures both in the equipment being used or provided, and in the working practices at the firm.
HSE served an enforcement notice on Wilson Power requiring improvements to be made to its safety measures and procedures. The company was fined £6,500, with £647 in costs after admitting a breach of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
After the case, HSE Inspector Julian Franklin said: "This young trainee was given unsafe, inappropriate and poorly maintained equipment to test an electrical transformer with no training or supervision. The firm failed to ensure that risks from a known hazard were controlled and allowed equipment to fall into disrepair, resulting in a potentially life-threatening incident." More details at:
Fine Imposed on Tool Company
A Hertfordshire tool supply company has been told to pay £27,000 for endangering workers after neglecting to maintain electrical systems and equipment.
The failings were identified by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) during an inspection on 19 November 2009. HSE served four Improvement Notices on the company, including one to improve management arrangements, over an 18 month period.
The company was fined a total of £24,000 and ordered to pay £3,000 in costs after admitting a breach of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and for ignoring the management improvement notice.
From our office in Chelmsford, Essex we are able to offer portable appliance testing servies to private and business customers throughout the South East of England.
We are also happy to provide quotations to schools, councils and other organisations.
Office and Warehouse Portable Appliance Testing (PAT Testing for Businesses)
Portable Appliance Testing is a process by which electrical appliances in a company or organisation are checked to see if they are safe. This is more commonly known as PAT Testing. It is important to remember that PAT Testing is a process which determines whether or not an appliance is safe to use, and it could save lives or avert serious damage to property.
Remember each job will be different, whether a school, office, factory unit or property let and by asking the question why should appliance testing be carried out, ask who should and would this affect? It is the safety of staff and electrical user and if a visit by the Health and Safety Executive, the Fire Officer or even the Insurance Company takes place a fire safety certificate could be declined, insurance could be declined and should somebody be injured Health and Safety could prosecute.
It was noted that electrical items may not pose a high risk in certain business areas and in other circumstances items may be considered more dangerous. This is still a grey area and ultimately down to business owners as to how they manage their electrical equipment.
A portable appliance test is not just the testing of items in itself but it also provides you with a record of all electrical equipment on site and proof that you are maintaining that equipment each year.
