What’s The Price of PAT Testing?

If you are an employer, there are a lot of rules and regulations about which you may be blissfully unaware, but which you are nonetheless required to adhere to. Not knowing about them is not a criticism. Let’s look at it this way: you decide to start in business on your own account, quite possibly copying the business of someone you have recently worked for, and with that entrepreneurial spirit believe that you could do it better and at the same time make more money than just the usual monthly pay cheque.

That is a good thing, and it is how business grows. So you probably start off as a one man business, providing your goods or services. You begin to succeed, so you take on an employee to help with the workload. You can see where this is going. As your business grows you take on more and more employees, move to bigger premises, and so on.

Has it ever occurred to you that you need to consider that the kettle in your office kitchen, which your staff uses to make tea and coffee, could be dangerous? Has it ever occurred to you that your own kettle in your kitchen at home could be dangerous? Very likely not. Yet they could be.

Even more, did you know that there are LAWS covering the electrical appliances in your office? If you started from scratch on your own and your business has grown, it has probably never occurred to you at all. After all, how would you know? Yet those laws exist, and you can get into serious trouble if someone is injured.

There are lots of other things such as fire risk assessments and more, (Oh, yes), but just let’s consider electrical appliances. Yes, as they wear, they can become dangerous. This is why PAT testing (Portable Appliance Testing) was introduced. You need to have your appliances tested to ensure that they are safe. That means that you need a qualified electrical engineer to do the job.

Of course, you would want to know the PAT testing price, but there is no easy answer. Fairly obviously, the PAT testing price is going to depend upon how many appliances need testing, because the more of them you have, the longer it is going to take. But you DO need to get PAT testing done in order to comply with the law.