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PAT Safety
Test Information Page 1
Introduction
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PAT Safety Test Information Page 1
A quarter of all serious electrical accidents involve portable
electrical appliances. There is a requirement for an employer
to take adequate steps to protect the users of those appliances
from both electrical shock and fire hazards.
To meet the requirements of both existing legislation and
the new 'Electricity at Work Regulations 1989' which came
into force on April I 1990. it is widely regarded to be necessary
to implement a programme of planned inspection and testing
of portable appliances. Guidelines for this inspection and
testing are given in the Health & Safety Executive publication
- PM32 - entitled The safe use of portable appliances'.
These guidelines outline a typical appliance testing programme
and recommended test method for equipment manufactured by
Four Square.
The responsibility for ensuring that all electrical appliances,
regardless of type, manufacturer or owner, on a site are electrically
safe and are maintained in an electrically safe condition
by regular testing, lies with the person with overall executive
responsibility for safety policy on the site and the 'responsible'
person charged with implementing the policy on the site.
Note: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy
of this information, it is given for guidance only, and the
user should satisfy themselves that any tests and/or test
programme carried out satisfy the requirements of the regulations.
Four Square cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage
arising from these guidelines.
Suggested
test equipment
Many, types of portable appliance testers are available for
carrying out electrical safety tests. Any tester that carries
out the 2 basic tests described in the following section should
be suitable for testing Four Square equipment.
These testers have the facility for connecting the equipment
under test to the tester via a 13 A socket on the tester.
Any Four Square equipment, which has a 13 A plug on the mains
supply lead, can be treated as a portable appliance and tested
with a portable appliance tester. Equipment, which has been,
installed with a connection other than a 13 A plug and socket
cannot be connected to the portable appliance tester and should
be dealt with as a non-portable appliance as detailed in the
next section.
Any PAT
unit must be itself, regularly tested and calibrated.
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