What/where are the regulations as to who may or may not certify
moveable electrical equipment to be put in offices/rented
accommodation?

Do the regs require routine calibration certification for the PAT kit?


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(jim_in_sussex) writes:
What/where are the regulations as to who may or may not certify
moveable electrical equipment to be put in offices/rented
accommodation?

The HSE recognises posession of C&G 2377/2 certificate as
demonstrating the required compitence to carry out testing,
and C&G 2377/1 certificate as demonstrating the required
compitence to plan and manage the testing regime. This is
what should be held by the tester testing equipment in a
workplace such as an office. These qualifications are
intended to be obtainable by anyone who knows how to wire
a plug and understands the difference between milliohms
and megohms. You do not need to be an electrician, and
actually very few electricians are qualified to perform
PAT testing. The two exams are normally taken together as
part of a two-day course. (The course numbers may have
changed slightly since I did it.)

For rented accomodation, the rules are different and I'm
not completely familiar with them never having been involved
here. What I recall was that the government screwed up in a
similar way to Part P. It allows local authorities to define
if testing is required and who can do the testing, and they
mostly say the tester must be a member of NICEIC, which means
most testers for rented accomodation don't have a clue what
they're doing.

Do the regs require routine calibration certification for the PAT kit?

Not when I did it.

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Andrew Gabriel