PAT Testing Services for Business

As a business and employer, you have a duty to prevent any harm coming to your employees and customers. A PAT testing (Portable appliance testing) is one of the ways that you can comply with this obligation. Failure to implement a programme of regular appliance testing can also have implications for your insurance policy should an electrical related injury claim be made.

Insurance companies assume that when giving insurance cover to a business, the owners of that business are complying with all regulations necessary. An insurance company may reduce, delay or even refuse to pay on a claim for damage if an appliance that has not been tested has caused the damage.

Employers responsibility

Electricity at work regulations 1989 Regulation 4 (2): ‘As may be necessary to prevent danger all systems shall be maintained so as to prevent so far as is reasonably practicable such danger.’

To meet the requirements of the 1989 Electricity at work regulations, it is widely regarded to be necessary to implement a programme of planned inspection and testing of portable appliances.

In the Health & Safety At Work Act 1974, all employers have a legal duty to provide safe plant and equipment and every employer must ensure that equipment must be maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and good repair.

You can find out more about the Acts and Regulations that may affect you on our information page.

Our valued clients include...

Berkely Homes, John Crane UK, Damar Group, EBM Papst, Mansell Construction, Marc Antoni Hair Salons, Espar Marine, Berkshire Discos, Panasonic Avionics, PRP Architects, Together, Sutton & East Surrey Water, Duke’s Meadow Golf Club, Chubb Fire, Xylem Dewatering Solutions, Sonardyne, Qwerty, Lodden Vale Practice.