MOBILE TESTING AND TAGGING SERVICE
With over 7 years of test and tag experience, we will inspect, test, and ensure your electrical appliances are safe and compliant with New Zealand’s electrical requirements for your employees, volunteers, and clients.
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We are a family business and are proud to say most of our original clients are still with us to this day. We supply a full and comprehensive set of reports and can fix most issues with failed items on the same day.
This process is sometimes called PAT testing, Portable Appliance Testing, electrical tagging or tag and test. Whatever you know it as call us and we will take care of it for you.
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Most new clients are shocked that to “test and tag” their items that you must unplug them and then plug them into our tester if your current provider races around putting stickers on your appliances they are not following AS/NZS 3760:2022.
TYPES OF TESTING
Single Phase Appliance Test and Tag
We can test and tag any single phase appliance with a New Zealand compliant plug on it, use our service to ensure your appliance safety, and that they comply with the requirements of the electrical test and tag standard AS/NZS3760:2022
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Three Phase Appliance Test and Tag
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No matter what rating/plug configuration, your three phase item has, we can test and tag it to ensure appliance safety with our PAT machine and associated test gear to measure leakage current present in your 3 phase appliances.
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RCD Test and Tag
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We can test both Portable Residual Current Devices and Fixed RCD’s (those fitted to your switch boards and protecting the electrical outlets in your business premises). Ensuring you are meeting your legal obligation to provide as far as is reasonably practicable, a safe working environment for your staff .
HOW OFTEN DO YOU NEED TO TEST AND TAG
Retest Intervals for test and tag inspections? what retest interval might apply to appliances, tools and leads in a variety of locations, situations and uses.
This can be confusing as an extension lead used on a building site would have a retest interval of three months.
The same lead used in a workshop would be tested and tagged for retest in six months. If it was being used in a staff café , a yearly retest interval would be appropriate, but move it to your Computer Server Room and a 60 month retest interval could be acceptable.
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For more detail buy a copy of AS/NZS3760, or give us a call at Northeast Electrical Safety Ltd.
COMMON FAULTS TYPICALLY FOUND
CUT CABLE EXPOSING LIVE WIRES
PLUG WIRES EXPOSED
SCREW JAMMED IN SKILLSAW
TEST AND TAG PROCESS
Visual Examination
The first step of testing is a visual inspection, Clause 2.3.2 of AS/NZS 3760 lists all the equipment checks to be made by visual and hands on inspection.
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90% of Failed Items will be detected by visually examining the item. This must be done completely, over the entire lead, plug, socket connector, appliance case- if any part cannot be seen, it can’t be passed. To perform a visual examination, the item under test must be turned off and unplugged.
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If any safety features have been removed, guards and interlocks disabled or modified to reduce their effectiveness, the item fails a test and tag inspection.
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Regard must be paid to New Zealand jurisdictional requirements; this is the part that many other service providers and some in house “competent persons” get wrong.
They have little understanding of the requirements of the electrical test and tag standard AS/NZS 3760:2022, no understanding of AS/NZS 3012 (if they are testing builder’s tools and leads) and no knowledge of the other standards and Electrical Safety Regulations requirements that apply to electrical appliances being sold or used in New Zealand.
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When you use our test and tag service, you can be sure we do.
EQUIPMENT ELECTRICAL TESTS INCLUDE:
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Earth continuity (class 1 equipment ,leads, RCD, PSOAs, multiboards)
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insulation test. (Class 1 item, Class 2 item, Lead, RCD PSOA,).
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Earth Leakage Current Class 1 item <5mA pass, Class 2 item <1mA (same RCD/MOV)
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Polarity test (Leads/Multiboards/PSOAs).
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Rated Trip test RCDs Type 1 10mA trip time <40mS, Type 2 30mA trip time <300mS
Once both the visual and electrical tests have been completed and we are certain of its electrical compliance with AS/NZS3760, we will print a tag, put a coloured overlay on it and fit the tag to the lead near the plug top of an item with a fixed lead.
If an item has a detachable lead, there will be two sets of tests/tags, one for the lead and a second for the appliance according to its Class.
We will produce a set of reports once we’re done and send these to you via email. Our reports are unique to us and contain more detail than most test and tag service- email us and request samples and you’ll see who the best test and tag service is.
DO MY APPLIANCES HAVE TO BE TESTED AND TAGGED?
The Health & Safety at Work Act 2015
38. Duty of PCBU who manages or controls fixtures, fittings, or plant at workplaces
(1) A PCBU who manages or controls fixtures, fittings, or plant at a workplace must, so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that the fixtures, fittings, or plant are without risks to the health and safety of any person.
What is “reasonably practicable” will depend on the degree of risk the worst possible outcome will occur and the resources available, testing and tagging your appliances should not cost a disproportionate amount to the risk of potential harm it reduces.
The test and tag of electrical items to AS/NZS3760 is a way of reducing that risk, gets items used to deemed safe under the Electrical Safety Regulations (see Reg 26)
Test and tag costs,
With test and tag costs, prices vary to reflect the difficulty or ease of testing a diverse range of items in a variety of workplaces to the requirements of the electrical test and tag standard AS/NZS3760 and AS/NZS3012, along with the Electrical Safety Regulations
For a quote please contact us