The PAT Testing & Electrical Safety Specialists.
With our offices in Mexborough and Wath Upon Dearne, we serve Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley, Leeds and Wakefield and other adjoining areas. We come to you, test all your equipment and leave you with an itemised report showing all your passed assets. Woodward - the first choice when it comes to electrical safety.​
Northern PAT-Guard (Part of Woodward) - Pat Testing and electrical safety, a family run company with a conscientious attitude to electrical safety.
We pride ourselves on our thorough approach to our work, ensuring that you are getting the highest standard of service. Defects in electrical appliances which could cause hazard can go unnoticed without the regular checks. It is the way many businesses keep their electrical appliances safe in accordance with the the IET code of practice & the Health & Safety Executive recommendations.
Portable Appliance Testing is a detailed examination of each appliance. This can only be carried out by a competent engineer. It involves the visual inspection as well as checking via plugging in to the testing machine. Some defects can only be found by a visual test and some via electrical testing so it is very important we do both.
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Call us at Woodward and your annual PAT test will be carried out to the highest possible standard In line with the IET code of practice edition 5 (2020) and at a very reasonable price.
Your obligation to your workforce is important to you as our Service is to us.
Overview
PAT Testing is defined as follows:
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Portable Appliance Testing, also known as PAT testing, is the examination or inspection of electrical appliances and equipment that ensures they are safe to use. PAT testing ensures the appliances and equipment are safe and helps to prevent electrical accidents in the workplace. PAT testing should be done on a routine basis and clear and concise records should be documented.
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Visual Check. This includes the Cable right from the plug to the appliance. The cable having the correct rating for the appliance, the fuse having the correct rating with regard the cable (not necessarily a 13a in a 13a plug as the fuse in the event of a problem is designed to protect the cable and blow before the cable melts) On the visual inspection I'm also looking inside the plug to ensure that the wires are correctly placed and not snagged, trapped or brittle etc.
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Plugging into the machine/meter - This checks for Earth continuity, Insulation and Earth Leakage. There is an amount of knowledge needed by the engineer to translate the data to a pass. Most test machines say whether the appliance has passed or failed but it's not as simple as that. The earth continuity threshold depends on other factors which the meter can not know but a competent PAT test engineer will know when to pass or fail the item. This is in line with IET code of Practice. The Leakage threshold is set usually to 0.75mA on the PAT test machine but the threshold has now drastically changed in the IET Code of Practice, Edition 5 (2020). Only the knowledgeable engineer will know to pass when the safety constraints are met.
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Any less than the above procedure and afterwards upon a fault occurring, an appliance which has not been checked to this standard would be deemed 'untested'. You would therefore be throwing money away with the less than competent testing and upon a claim your insurance would certainly not pay out.
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You can check if this procedure is being adhered to. I'm totally OK with the customer watching my work, why would an engineer be upset if a customer wishes to take interest?
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Give us a call, you may be surprised.
'Among other things we test for the earth but It doesn't cost the Earth'.
-The Trade Association for Portable Appliance Testing.
Safety First !!
PATTA is the only trade organisation for PAT testing. PATTA have put many ideals in place to which it's members must adhere. You can rest assured you are paying for a job well done when choosing a member of the Portable Appliance Testing Trade Association.
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PATTA members will also be seen to be giving advice to their customers, so that many areas previously misconstrued can be made clearer. This is never to say you must use Woodward to do your PAT - but I would urge that you would either use a PATTA member or at least have the knowledge yourself to know if the job is being done correctly.
We want you to have the knowledge enough to know yourself if an engineer isn't carrying out the procedure in line with recommendations from the Health & Safety executive.
I'm proud to say that the organisation PATTA were involved in the writing of the new edition of the IET code of practice (2020).
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At Woodward we are as totally committed to electrical safety as our customers evidently are. Book with confidence.
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'Safety without compromise'