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Portable Appliance Testing - IEE PAT Testing and Fixed Wire Testing

Portable Appliance TestingPortable Appliance Testing. Professional and affordable PAT Testing and Fixed Wire Testing to HSE and IEE guidelines.

We offer friendly and professional onsite PAT Testing and Fixed Wire Testing services - all our engineers are fully trained and have the City & Guilds 2377 qualification (Portable Appliance Testing and Inspection) in accordance with the IEE codes of practice.

We provide a very high standard of Portable Appliance Testing service with a price that's affordable for all types of business. Our prices are the most competitive in the business and we will match any verified quotation, with pricing as low as as £1 per test (with larger sites, we can negotiate even lower pricing - please contact us for volume pricing).

PAT Testing or ‘portable appliance testing’ and Fixed Wire Testing are an important part of any Health & Safety policy for most businesses, to ensure the safety of electrical appliances - we can help you implement the HSE requirements by providing mobile professional Portable Appliance Testing services at your premises. 

When HSE or risk/fire assessors visit premises they will ask to see what steps have been taken to keep an electrical safety program in place. They will expect to see a regular PAT Testing procedure. You can ensure compliance by using our onsite Portable Appliance Testing services.

Fixed Wire testing or electrical installation testing (also sometimes referred to as periodic testing) involves the inspection and testing of installed electrical circuits, sockets, fixed appliances etc. Most commercial buildings are normally inspected every 5 years whilst residential buildings are commonly inspected every 10 years. This is a very important part of your Health and Safety programme which should not be lapsed.

 

Background information

 

Setting up safe test areas

It's important to make sure that anyone not involved with electrical testing work is kept free from risk. This can be done by confining testing work to a designated test area. In some workshops, it might be possible to set up a permanent workbench and test area, to which only the testers have access. Otherwise, unauthorised people should be prevented from approaching the equipment under test by physical barriers or other demarcation methods which form part of the test area boundaries.

Test areas can be: (a) a designated room built as a test area with special protection features and fitted with secure doors (possibly interlocked, depending upon the degree of risk) to prevent unauthorised access; (b) an area set aside in a workshop with some form of permanent barrier as a demarcation; (c) a work bench which might be designed as a test bench or be used for repairs and testing; (d) a designated work position within, or at the end of, a production line;

(e) a temporary area set up around equipment using purpose-built barriers as demarcation; (f) an area around fixed equipment, such as switchgear, or control gear, where skilled people are carrying out repairs, fault-finding or testing during maintenance work. In workshops where all employees have been adequately trained and instructed in safety practices and all unauthorised personnel are effectively excluded, local demarcation of the workbench or work area where testing is done may not be necessary.

All employees need to be aware that those who are carrying out testing should not be distracted by the interference of others who are not involved with the test in progress. Protecting the people doing the testing The measures that are used to protect the people doing the testing need to be effective to prevent them coming into accidental contact with dangerous exposed conductors.

This might be either a single-hand contact with a source of energy which has one of its supply conductors in electrical testing at work connected to earth, or another area of conducting surface. Class I equipment is in this category because the mains at source are earth referenced; so is electronic equipment where a large metal surface (or chassis) is connected to the source.

There is also a risk of injury from sources of supply which are not earth referenced and where accidental simultaneous contact with both poles of the supply is possible. Methods of reducing the risk of a shock from simultaneous contact with conductors include: (a) testing at reduced, non-hazardous voltages and currents; (b) using interlocked test enclosures in which the unit under test is contained; (c) using temporary insulation; (d) replacing covers which need not be removed for the purposes of the test, for example once supply connections have been made; (e) creating an area which is as earth free as practicable; (f) using isolating transformers connected to the mains supply; (g) using 30 mA RCDs. The following sections provide more detail about each of these protective measures.

 

  

Our services
  

Our geographic coverage
  

The UK areas we cover in the South
 
Our coverage by UK areas
In the south of England we cover: Berkshire Buckinghamshire Middlesex and Greater London. We also cover Essex Hertfordshire Kent and Surrey.
Our coverage of GB cities
London and City of London and Greater London - East London North London West London and South London
The London area includes many regions: Chelsea Dartford Epsom and Fulham. Areas also include Kensington Westminster and the West End of London.
South East GB
Our South East UK coverage includes every region and city: Including Canterbury and St Albans.
Our coverage of the United Kingdom by county region
London and City of London and Greater London – East London North London West London and South London
The London area includes many regions: Chelsea Dartford Epsom Fulham Kensington. Also including all other areas in Westminster and the West End of London.
South East GB
Our South East UK coverage includes every region: Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Essex Hertfordshire and additionally Kent and Surrey.
Our coverage of UK towns in various English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland UK counties
Bedfordshire
Our coverage includes Ampthill Bedford Biggleswade and also Dunstable. Plus Flitwick Kempston and also Leighton Buzzard Luton Potton Sandy and Woburn.
Berkshire
Our support covers Bracknell Crowthorne Hungerford and also Maidenhead and also Newbury Reading and Sandhurst. Plus Slough Thatcham and Wokingham.
Buckinghamshire
We work in Aylesbury Beaconsfield Bletchley Buckingham and Chesham. In addition High Wycombe Marlow Milton Keynes Newport Pagnell Olney Princes Risborough Wendover and Winslow.
Essex
Our coverage includes Basildon Billericay Braintree Brentwood Brightlingsea Burnham on Crouch Chelmsford Clacton on Sea Coggeshall Colchester Epping Grays Hadleigh Halstead Harlow Harwich Ilford Loughton Maldon Manningtree Rayleigh Rochford Romford Saffron Walden South Woodham Ferrers Southend-on-Sea Thaxted Tilbury Waltham Abbey Walton-on-the-Naze Wickford and Witham.
Hertfordshire
We work in Barnet Berkhamsted Borehamwood Buntingford Cheshunt Harpenden Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead. We also cover  Hertford Hitchin Hoddesdon Letchworth Potters Bar and Rickmansworth. Our coverage also includes Royston Sawbridgeworth Stevenage Tring Waltham Cross Ware plus additionally Watford and Welwyn Garden City.
Kent
Our coverage includes Ashford Broadstairs Canterbury Chatham Crayford Dartford Deal Dover Edenbridge Erith Faversham Folkestone and Gillingha. We also cover Gravesend Hythe Lydd Maidstone plus Margate Orpington Ramsgate Rochester Sandwich and Sevenoaks. We also support Sheerness Sittingbourne Southborough Strood Swanley plus also Tenterden Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Westerham and Whitstable.

Surrey
We cover Ashford Camberley Dorking Egham Epsom plus Esher Farnham Godalming and also Guildford. Our coverage also includes Haslemere Horley Leatherhead Redhill and also Reigate Staines Walton-on-Thames Weybridge and Woking.

 

 
Our coverage by UK areas
In the south of England we cover: Berkshire Buckinghamshire Middlesex and Greater London. We also cover Essex Hertfordshire Kent and Surrey.
Our coverage of GB cities
London and City of London and Greater London - East London North London West London and South London
The London area includes many regions: Chelsea Dartford Epsom and Fulham. Areas also include Kensington Westminster and the West End of London.
South East GB
Our South East UK coverage includes every region and city: Including Canterbury and St Albans.
Our coverage of the United Kingdom by county region
London and City of London and Greater London – East London North London West London and South London
The London area includes many regions: Chelsea Dartford Epsom Fulham Kensington. Also including all other areas in Westminster and the West End of London.
South East GB
Our South East UK coverage includes every region: Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Essex Hertfordshire and additionally Kent and Surrey.
Our coverage of UK towns in various English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland UK counties
Bedfordshire
Our coverage includes Ampthill Bedford Biggleswade and also Dunstable. Plus Flitwick Kempston and also Leighton Buzzard Luton Potton Sandy and Woburn.
Berkshire
Our support covers Bracknell Crowthorne Hungerford and also Maidenhead and also Newbury Reading and Sandhurst. Plus Slough Thatcham and Wokingham.
Buckinghamshire
We work in Aylesbury Beaconsfield Bletchley Buckingham and Chesham. In addition High Wycombe Marlow Milton Keynes Newport Pagnell Olney Princes Risborough Wendover and Winslow.
Essex
Our coverage includes Basildon Billericay Braintree Brentwood Brightlingsea Burnham on Crouch Chelmsford Clacton on Sea Coggeshall Colchester Epping Grays Hadleigh Halstead Harlow Harwich Ilford Loughton Maldon Manningtree Rayleigh Rochford Romford Saffron Walden South Woodham Ferrers Southend-on-Sea Thaxted Tilbury Waltham Abbey Walton-on-the-Naze Wickford and Witham.
Hertfordshire
We work in Barnet Berkhamsted Borehamwood Buntingford Cheshunt Harpenden Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead. We also cover  Hertford Hitchin Hoddesdon Letchworth Potters Bar and Rickmansworth. Our coverage also includes Royston Sawbridgeworth Stevenage Tring Waltham Cross Ware plus additionally Watford and Welwyn Garden City.
Kent
Our coverage includes Ashford Broadstairs Canterbury Chatham Crayford Dartford Deal Dover Edenbridge Erith Faversham Folkestone and Gillingha. We also cover Gravesend Hythe Lydd Maidstone plus Margate Orpington Ramsgate Rochester Sandwich and Sevenoaks. We also support Sheerness Sittingbourne Southborough Strood Swanley plus also Tenterden Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Westerham and Whitstable.

Surrey
We cover Ashford Camberley Dorking Egham Epsom plus Esher Farnham Godalming and also Guildford. Our coverage also includes Haslemere Horley Leatherhead Redhill and also Reigate Staines Walton-on-Thames Weybridge and Woking.

 

  

Some of the types of companies we work with
 
Engineering: electrical engineering, electronic engineering, civil engineering, software and hardware engineering. Plus control engineering, telecommunications, telecoms and communications engineering.
Manufacturing: automotive engineering, car plant production, aerospace companies, electronic component manufacturers and steel works. Plus printing works, chemical plants, pharmaceutical companies, drug companies and rubber component production businesses. Plant and production organisations, power stations, utility works, oil rigs and gas rig construction companies.
Accounting and Finance: banking, stock exchange, building society businesses and banks. Plus financial markets, City brokers and the FSA.
Insurance: life insurance companies, home insurance companies, financial advisor businesses, and health insurance specialists. Also travel insurance companies and life insurance companies.
Advertising and PR: graphic design agencies, editorial and advertising agencies. Additionally, internet advertising companies, Email marketing agencies and web marketing companies.
Web and internet: website agencies, web copywriting businesss, SEO and Google companies. Also search engine optimisation, internet advertising sales and web consultancies.
Architecture: architect consultancies, civil engineering companies, quantity surveyor and interior designer companies Plus structural engineering and field surveying businesses.
Legal: solicitor, lawyer and QC partnerships. Additionally conveyancing, personal injury lawyer and compensation solicitor partnerships.
Arts and entertainment: film production companies, TV and theatre companies. Also the music industry including bands and orchestras. Broadcast jobs including lighting companies and specialist TV research businesses.
Library: library management and library catalogue systems.
IT and Technology: IT consultancy electronics engineering, software companies and IT hardware development businesses Also IT support companies computer development engineering, web specialist companies, website development and computer network IT manufacturers.
Voluntary work: non profit sector, charities and not for profit companies.
Farming and environmental: green industries, forestry, farming agriculture, agricultural engineering and farm equipment.
Museum work: museum management systems.
Business: human resource systems, HR consultancies and management consultancies.
Estate agents: surveying businesses, HIP and HIPs surveyors. House valuer and house photographer businesses.
Telemarketing and call centre: telemarketing companies, call centre agencies, telesales and appointment setting agencies.
Religious and ministry: churches and cathedrals.
Building and construction: architect practices, surveyor and civil engineering companies, quantity surveyor and interior design businesses. Plus structural engineering, bridge design, earthworks engineering and motorway management companies.
Retail: shops, clubs, department stores.
Education: universities, examination boards and schools.
Science: laboratories, research establishments, computer rooms and university labs.
Fashion: fashion houses and design studios.
Sports: sports centres, health spas and sport physiotherapist consultancies.
Government: local government, central government, social services and the civil service.
Travel and holidays: travel agents, holiday consultantancies, airlines, aircraft manufacturers and aerospace subcontractors.
Transport: haulage companies, logistics businesses, freight management and refrigerated logistics companies.
Medicine and health care: healthcare companies, care homes, nursing, NHS hospitals, General Practice surgeries, dentist businesses, dental surgeries and private hospitals.
Food and Drink: food manufacturers, wine manufacturers, winery and brewery companies. Public house chains, restaurant chains, food retailers, and food wholesalers.
Zoos: vetinary consutancies, RSPCA, RSPB work and zoological organisations.
Photography: photographic organisations, video production companies and freelance photographers.
 
 
Engineering: electrical engineering, electronic engineering, civil engineering, software and hardware engineering. Plus control engineering, telecommunications, telecoms and communications engineering.
Manufacturing: automotive engineering, car plant production, aerospace companies, electronic component manufacturers and steel works. Plus printing works, chemical plants, pharmaceutical companies, drug companies and rubber component production businesses. Plant and production organisations, power stations, utility works, oil rigs and gas rig construction companies.
Accounting and Finance: banking, stock exchange, building society businesses and banks. Plus financial markets, City brokers and the FSA.
Insurance: life insurance companies, home insurance companies, financial advisor businesses, and health insurance specialists. Also travel insurance companies and life insurance companies.
Advertising and PR: graphic design agencies, editorial and advertising agencies. Additionally, internet advertising companies, Email marketing agencies and web marketing companies.
Web and internet: website agencies, web copywriting businesss, SEO and Google companies. Also search engine optimisation, internet advertising sales and web consultancies.
Architecture: architect consultancies, civil engineering companies, quantity surveyor and interior designer companies Plus structural engineering and field surveying businesses.
Legal: solicitor, lawyer and QC partnerships. Additionally conveyancing, personal injury lawyer and compensation solicitor partnerships.
Arts and entertainment: film production companies, TV and theatre companies. Also the music industry including bands and orchestras. Broadcast jobs including lighting companies and specialist TV research businesses.
Library: library management and library catalogue systems.
IT and Technology: IT consultancy electronics engineering, software companies and IT hardware development businesses Also IT support companies computer development engineering, web specialist companies, website development and computer network IT manufacturers.
Voluntary work: non profit sector, charities and not for profit companies.
Farming and environmental: green industries, forestry, farming agriculture, agricultural engineering and farm equipment.
Museum work: museum management systems.
Business: human resource systems, HR consultancies and management consultancies.
Estate agents: surveying businesses, HIP and HIPs surveyors. House valuer and house photographer businesses.
Telemarketing and call centre: telemarketing companies, call centre agencies, telesales and appointment setting agencies.
Religious and ministry: churches and cathedrals.
Building and construction: architect practices, surveyor and civil engineering companies, quantity surveyor and interior design businesses. Plus structural engineering, bridge design, earthworks engineering and motorway management companies.
Retail: shops, clubs, department stores.
Education: universities, examination boards and schools.
Science: laboratories, research establishments, computer rooms and university labs.
Fashion: fashion houses and design studios.
Sports: sports centres, health spas and sport physiotherapist consultancies.
Government: local government, central government, social services and the civil service.
Travel and holidays: travel agents, holiday consultantancies, airlines, aircraft manufacturers and aerospace subcontractors.
Transport: haulage companies, logistics businesses, freight management and refrigerated logistics companies.
Medicine and health care: healthcare companies, care homes, nursing, NHS hospitals, General Practice surgeries, dentist businesses, dental surgeries and private hospitals.
Food and Drink: food manufacturers, wine manufacturers, winery and brewery companies. Public house chains, restaurant chains, food retailers, and food wholesalers.
Zoos: vetinary consutancies, RSPCA, RSPB work and zoological organisations.
Photography: photographic organisations, video production companies and freelance photographers.
 
  

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