Electrical safety testing is an essential service for all commercial businesses as well as in residential/domestic settings. As an employer, facilities manager, safety representative or landlord, you must make arrangements for the appropriate electrical testing of buildings and properties under your responsibility.
Why are electrical services so important?
There are two types of essential electrical testing which must be undertaken in commercial businesses, and by landlords responsible for domestic settings. These are:
- Installations testing – Confirming the safety and compliance of fixed and permanent wiring installations. This is the essential electrical infrastructure of a building, such as sockets, lights, fuse boxes and circuit breakers. Wiring installations also include electrical systems added to a building, such as ventilation and air conditioning systems, alarm systems and other security systems such as CCTV.
- PAT Testing – This is confirming the safety and compliance of portable appliances, such as electrical items used in an office – PCs, printers, laptops, photocopiers – and items provided for employees such as fridges, microwaves and kettles. This also includes portable electrical tools, such as drills, saws or grinders.
Electrical testing is therefore essential in protecting your people, your buildings and your tools and equipment from electrical risks such as injury, damage and fire. A programme of electrical testing should be arranged and designed to ensure all your systems and appliances are safe to use and compliant with the applicable legislation, and Apardion can carry out this service for you.
Our electrical services in Scotland
At Apardion our specialist electrical engineers can carry out the appropriate testing and inspection to ensure your electrical systems are safe and compliant, in line with the requirements of BS7671:2018 Amendment 2:2022. This means we can test your fixed wiring installations and your portable appliances to identify defects, damage and deterioration, to determine where faults exist and where they originate from, and to identify risks and what remedial action is required. Using the pass/fail criteria specified in the appropriate legislation we can confirm your electrical systems and appliances are safe to use, and we can identify where problems exist.
These services include:
- Electrical Maintenance & repair – Regular testing and inspection of your systems and appliances for the safe up keep your electrical installation to ensure that it complies with current regulation
- EICR inspections – A thorough examination of your fixed electrical wiring installations to provide an Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR)
- Emergency lighting testing – Peace of mind that your emergency lighting systems are safe, operational and ready for when you need them
- PAT Testing – Portable appliance testing programmes
- EV Chargers, Domestic & Commercial – Installation, commissioning and regular routine testing and inspection of electric vehicle chargers
- Energy saving lighting solutions – Confirming the safety and compliance of energy saving lighting systems, and also confirming they are performing to design specs in terms of energy usage
- New electrical installations – Testing and inspection of brand-new fixed wiring installations
- Domestic smoke detector upgrades – Confirming the safety, compliance and operation of smoke detector upgrades in commercial and domestic settings
- Access systems – Fixed wiring testing and inspection of security systems
Contact Apardion for specialist electrical services in Scotland
At Apardion we have vast experience of working across many different commercial sectors and with customers across the many regions of Scotland. If you need professional electrical services in Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow contact Apardion today.
We have a team of accredited, qualified and highly experienced electrical services professionals who are available 24/7. We can be fast and reactive to meet your electrical testing needs and we can work with you to design an appropriate testing and inspection programme. This will maintain your electrical systems, ensure you are fully compliant and most importantly of all, will protect and safeguard your people and buildings. So contact our team at Apardion today.
