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Helping business in and around The Area such as shops, offices, care homes, schools, workshops and mobile workshops, discos, and bands meet their duty of care to comply with current electrical Health & Safety, insurance obligations. We provide a reliable portable appliance and electrical testing service using testers who are City & Guilds 2377 qualified and use up to date Portable Appliance Testing equipment and periodic inspections (which is calibrated annually). All PAT testing is carried out to the IEE code of practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment standards, and fully documented and recorded test results are supplied.

The Law And PAT Testing

In recent years the responsibilities for safety of persons at work have been prescribed in much legislation, some of which is listed below

The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Puts a duty of care upon both employer (sections 2, 3 and 4 etc) and employee (section 7) to ensure the safety of all persons using the work premises. This includes the self-employed.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

State:

"Every employer shall make a suitable and sufficient assessment of:

the risks to the health and safety of his employees to which they are exposed whilst they are at work, and

the risks to the health and safety of persons not in his employment arising out of or in connection with the conduct by him of his undertaking". (Regulation 3(1)).

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998

State:

"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))

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) cover most risks that can result from using work equipment . With respect to risks from electricity, compliance with the Electricity at Work Regulations 1998 is likely to achieve to achieve compliance with PUWER regulations 5-9, 19 and 22.

PUWER only applies to work equipment used by workers at work. This includes all work equipment (fixed, portable or transportable) connected to a source of electrical energy. PUWER dose not apply to the fixed installations in a building. The electrical safety of these installations is dealt with only by the the Electricity at Work Regulations.

The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989

State:

"As may be necessary to prevent danger, all systems shall be maintained so to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, such danger". (Regulation 4(2))

" 'System' means an electrical system in which all the electrical equipment is, or may be, electrically connected to a common source of electrical energy and includes such source and such equipment". (Regulation 2(1))

"Electrical equipment includes anything used, intended to be used or installed for the use, to generate, provide, transmit, transform, rectify, convert, conduct, distribute, control, store, measure or use electrical energy". (Regulation 2(1))

Scope of the legislation

It is clear that the combination of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 apply to all electrical equipment used in, or associated with, places of work. The scope extends from distribution systems, be they 400KV or simply those in building, down to the smallest piece of electrical equipment such as a hairdryer, a VDU, a telephone or even in some situations battery-operated equipment.

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

Regulation 5 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 states:

"Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and good repair." ('efficient' relates to how the condition of the equipment might affect health and safety; it is not concerned with productivity.)

Inspection

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 include a specific requirement that where the safety of work equipment depends on installation conditions, and where conditions of work are liable to lead to deterioration, the equipment shall be inspected (Regulation 6).

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