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The Occupational Health and Safety Act places a duty of care to provide a safe workplace. Failure to maintain electrical equipment in a safe condition or to use equipment in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions may result in injury or death to you, employees or other parties. To meet the duty of care it is necessary to ensure that risk of injury from electric shock for all people at the workplace is reduced as far as is reasonably practicable. A method of achieving this duty is by testing and tagging electrical equipment and implementing procedures for use of electrical equipment.
Remember - We can’t see smell or hear electricity. We all have a duty of care to make our workplaces as safe as possible.
Every employer and employee has a duty to maintain a safe working environment.Please don’t use items that are not tested and tagged - let’s keep our Australian industries strong and safe!
Call 1300 855 620 we can make your workplace safety compliant.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 (OSH Act) and Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994 require electrical equipment at workplaces to be safe and not expose workers to hazards.
As prescribed by the Occupational Safety and Health Regulations 1996 and Mines Safety and Inspection Regulations 1995 the person having control of a workplace or access to that work place, i.e. employer, self-employed person, main contractor, must ensure that all portable plug-in electrical equipment and residual current devices (RCDs) at the workplace are safe and appropriately inspected, tested and maintained by a competent person.
Costs will be based on the amount of equipment to be tested and the environment and location that we are testing in (metro, country or regional). Please call us to discuss your specific requirements.
To perform a full electrical test yes we need to turn equipment off. This should only take a few minutes per item. Our experienced operators try to work with as little disruption as possible. In extreme cases we understand that some items cannot be turned off - in that scenario a thorough visual is performed and notes added to the report as to why a visual was done.
Testing time frames vary within different industries depending on what the equipment is and the environment that the equipment is used. Australian Standards AS/NZS 3760:2010 contain a guide to testing and tagging time frames, however a risk assessment must be made to determine exact time frames. See Table Attached:
TABLE 4
Indicative testing and inspection intervals for electrical equipment
(CAUTION: This page must be read in conjunction with AS/NZS 3760 as a whole, and particularly 2.1)
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Type of environment and/or equipment |
Interval between inspection and tests |
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Equipment including Class I equipment, Class II equipment, cord sets, cord extension sets and EPODs |
Residual current devices (RCDs) |
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Push-button test - by user |
Operating time and push-button test |
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(a) |
(b) |
Portable |
Fixed |
Portable |
Fixed |
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1. Factories, workshops, places of manufacture, assembly, maintenance or fabrication |
6 months |
Daily, or before every use, whichever is the longer |
6 months |
12 months |
12 months |
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2. Environment where the equipment or supply flexible cord is subject to flexing in normal use OR is open to abuse OR is in a hostile environment |
12 months |
3 months |
6 months |
12 months |
12 months |
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3. Environment where the equipment or supply cord is NOT subject to flexing in normal use and is NOT open to abuse and is NOT in a hostile environment |
5 years |
3 months |
6 months |
2 years |
2 years |
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4. Residential type areas of: hotels, residential institutions, motels, boarding houses, halls, hostels accommodation houses, and the like |
2 years |
6 months |
6 months |
2 years |
2 years |
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5. Equipment used for commercial cleaning |
6 months |
Daily, or before every use, whichever is the longer |
N/A |
6 months |
N/A |
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6. Hire equipment: Inspection Test and tag |
Prior to hire |
Including push-button test by hirer prior to hire |
N/A |
N/A |
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3 months |
N/A |
3 months |
12 months |
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7. Repaired, serviced and second-hand equipment |
After repair or service which could affect electrical safety, or on reintroduction to service, refer to AS/NZS 5762. |
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