Rules and Guidelines
Want to participate in the discussions? Please read our Community Rules and Guidelines. Need some help? Visit Support and Answers.

  • State Not Answered
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 13 replies
  • Subscribers 32 subscribers
  • Views 2203 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
You may also be interested in
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

PAT Testing

Former Community Member
Former Community Member
Booked on a pat testing course next week and trying to find some revision material online but having no joy.


Its a one day course so I can’t imagine having much on the day.


does anyone have anything they can pass over or send me to?


Clint


Parents
  • 0
    Easier still to decide not to do it at all if the history shows that it is largely nugatory, as it seems the HSE themselves have, quoting their own website.

    In 2011, the HSE reviewed its approach to portable appliance maintenance in its own offices. Thinking about the type of equipment in use, and how it was used, the HSE looked back at the results from its annual testing of portable appliances across its estate over the last five years. Using the results of the previous tests, the HSE decided that further portable appliance tests are not needed within the foreseeable future or at all for certain types of portable equipment. Also, they decided to continue to monitor any faults reported as a result of user checks and visual inspections and review its maintenance system if evidence suggests that it needs revising. Electrical equipment will continue to be maintained by a series of user checks and visual inspections by staff that have had some training.




    I suspect that in the intervening 8 years of this fascinating experiment, nothing bad enough has happened to require them to change back to doing formal annual inspections, as that notice has been on their website for a while.


    I presume the folk selling PAT courses don't often refer to the HSE as an example of good practice however ..

     


Reply
  • 0
    Easier still to decide not to do it at all if the history shows that it is largely nugatory, as it seems the HSE themselves have, quoting their own website.

    In 2011, the HSE reviewed its approach to portable appliance maintenance in its own offices. Thinking about the type of equipment in use, and how it was used, the HSE looked back at the results from its annual testing of portable appliances across its estate over the last five years. Using the results of the previous tests, the HSE decided that further portable appliance tests are not needed within the foreseeable future or at all for certain types of portable equipment. Also, they decided to continue to monitor any faults reported as a result of user checks and visual inspections and review its maintenance system if evidence suggests that it needs revising. Electrical equipment will continue to be maintained by a series of user checks and visual inspections by staff that have had some training.




    I suspect that in the intervening 8 years of this fascinating experiment, nothing bad enough has happened to require them to change back to doing formal annual inspections, as that notice has been on their website for a while.


    I presume the folk selling PAT courses don't often refer to the HSE as an example of good practice however ..

     


Children
No Data

Community Rules & Guidelines