All businesses are required under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 to ensure that the portable appliances that their employees are required to use are safe for them to do so. That is a fair and logical requirement. This includes all sorts of thing such as laptops, printers, copiers, and even the office kettle which is used for making the coffee. Basically, it includes anything which has a plug on the end of a cable attached to it.
If you are the employer, then it is beholden to you to ensure their safety, yet unless you are a qualified electrical engineer it is extremely unlikely that you could do so. Certainly, you can carry out a visual inspection and it might appear that, on the surface, the appliance is perfectly safe. However, the fact is that it could still be extremely unsafe. The only way to be sure is to use the services of a PAT testing company which has qualified engineers who can carry out such testing. PAT stands simply for Portable Appliance Testing.
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