Portable Appliance Testing

It is very important to have any electrical appliance in your workplace, rented accommodation or especially any place where members of the public visit, tested to ensure that it is safe to use.

For Portable Appliance Testing considerable legislation should be taken into account:-

  • Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
  • The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
  • The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999
  • The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations1998

When each electrical appliance has been tested, if safe it will display a notice showing when it was tested, that it has been passed as safe to use, when the next test should take place and signed by whoever tested the appliance.

A visual check would be carried out first as this could reveal faults that testing may NOT show. Then a number of the following tests would be carried out(depending on the appliance).

       
  • Earth Bond Test
  • Insulation Test
  • Substitute Leakage Test
  • Flash Testing
  • Earth Leakage Measurement
  • Load Testing
  • Touch Leakage Test
  • Functional Check
  
 
       

 

 
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