Guidance from the Health and Safety Executive
The HSE are the people that will prosecute you if you have an accident, so it makes sense to take their advice and guidance on board. The good news is that the HSE are extremely helpful, and publish lots of information on their website. We have, with their kind permission, included a few links to relevant documents. You can buy the documents from their website, but most are available as a free of charge download.
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Maintaining Portable and Transportable Electrical Equipment. This document is published by the Health and Safety Executive, and superseeds the original version which was published in 1994.This new edition contains updated advice, with new sections on cables and repair/replacement. A very useful document - normally available to buy at £7.95 but you can use this link to download it (as a pdf) file directly from the HSE website. |
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Electrical Safety and You Available to download free of charge from the HSE website. |
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Maintaining Portable Electrical Equipment in Offices and Other Low Risk Environments Common sense and practical advice from the HSE about testing equipment in an office or similar environment. Note that the HSE regard schools, libraries etc as low risk environments so most local authorities should refer to this document |
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Maintaining Portable Electrical Equipment in Hotels and Tourist Accommodation Common sense and advice about PAT Testing in hotels, Bed&breakfasts, hostels, as well as halls of residence and boarding schools |
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Electrical Safety for Entertainers If you work as a musician, DJ or artiste, then of course you'll need to get your equipment tested regularly. Mostly you'll need to get it tested because the venues insist on seeing your certificates. However, this information from the HSE tells you what you should be really doing! |