Do you have a business looking for PAT testing in Reading area?

Portable appliance testing, commonly known as PAT testing, is a way of checking your electrical equipment to see if it is safe and is vital to protect your business, its employees or tenants. According to the Health & Safety Executive, portable appliances account for 25% of all reportable electrical accidents.Our mission is to provide the most efficient PAT testing service in the Reading area to enable our customers to fulfil their electrical equipment safety obligations.

As a business or landlord in the Reading area we can help you fulfill your a duty to prevent any harm coming to your employees and customers and as a locally based business we can pass on reduced travelling costs in our services to you. PAT testing (Portable appliance testing) is one of the ways that you can comply with this obligation. It's worth bearing in mind that 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.

ACE Testing can help with your 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.