Eleksafe PAT testing in Gloucestershire

Eleksafe PAT testing - Portable Appliance Testing in Gloucester

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Eleksafe are registered with Chas, the Contractors Health & Safety Scheme and are approved by Gloucestershire County Council.

Welcome to Eleksafe the portable appliance testing (P.A.T.) specialists.

Based in Stroud Gloucestershire we P.A.T test:

Hotels
Clubs
Schools
Offices
Letting Properties

In fact anywhere where there is a legal requirement for testing portable appliances

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"Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is so constructed or adapted as to be suitable for the purpose for which it is used or provided".

Regulation 4 (1)

"As may be neccessary to prevent danger, all systems shall be maintained so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, such danger ".

Regulation 4 (2)

Everyone at work has their responsibilites including, in certain circumstances, trainees. However, because of the all-embracing responsibilities of all persons this does not minimise the duties of particular persons. Regulation 3 of the Electricity at Work Regulation recognises a responsibility (control) that employers and many employees have for electrical systems.As may be necessary to prevent danger, all systems shall be maintained so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, such danger. An appliance with a detachable power supply flex (appliance - coupler) should be tested with the cord plugged into the appliance.

The cord set should be labelled and then tested separately from the appliance as follows:

a 3 core set should be tested as a Class 1 appliance
a 2 core set should be tested as a Class 2 appliance

The following inspections and tests should be made:

Visual inspection
Class 1 - earth continuity, polarity and insulation checks
Class 2 - polarity and insulation checks

The reason that the cord set is inspected and tested separately from the appliance is that the cord set could be used during the course of the next period to supply a different appliance.
For example, if the cord set was a 2 core and during the year, was inadvertently used to supply a Class 1 appliance, the appliance would be unearthed and present a risk of electric shock.
A 2-core cord set should not be fitted with a 3-pole appliance coupler.

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