Power Sonic PAT testing overview

Welcome back to our PAT testing blog.

Today we wanted to give you an overview of our pat testing history and future credentials.

Power Sonic Ltd were formed in 2006 with the ambition to become one of the UK's largest testing company's.

Whilst we recgonise the intense competition in our market area we believe we deliver a superior service from first customer contact to project completion.

We work with customers who have a handful of items to international firms with many thousands of appliances. Our service is the same for all clients and our friendly approach has been commended on many occasions.

Our engineers don't just hold the basic PAT testing qualifications, they are as a minimum trained to city and guilds 2391 test and inspection. They also have many years of experiance and have been properly trained in the use of the latest test equipment. They are also fully trained in customer relations and site managment. This enables us to deliver a first rate personel service.

We made significant investment in test equipment and software reducing testing times and driving down costs. We also purchased new company branded vans and uniform.

We believe we can continue to grow and pride ourselves on the outstanding contribution we have made so far.

It was todays intention to try to introduce our comapny a little, sorry if it sounded like an advert but background information has an important part to play.

Thanks for checking back and we hope to see you again soon

power Sonic ltd

Yorkshire Portable Appliance Testing

Welcome back to our PAT testing blog.

We have begun to pass comment on a few varying issues related to pat testing. We will continue with this in the coming days and weeks ahead.

On a business note we would just like to make public the growth of pat testing tenders we are winning in the Yorkshire region. We believe this is due to our outstanding customer service and excellent value testing program.

We really do provide the one stop solution to all electrical testing requirements.

The feedback from these customers is excellent, along with customers from all over the UK. Our office and engineering team really are doing a fantastic job in ensuring a safe electrical environment.

Keep checking our portable appliance testing blog and look out for our new posts.

Yorkshire and nationwide pat testing.

Power Sonic Ltd
www.powersonic-online.co.uk

Poratable appliance testing PAT

Welcome back to our pat testing blog. We hope you are finding it useful so far.

As mentioned in yesterdays blog we want to take a look at the frequency of testing issues.

Much confusion seems to reign in this area, we hope to be able to shed some light.

A guidance for the frequency of testing is found in the IET code of portable appliance testing hand book. This is the staring point for most organisations who base there services around this manual.

The end frequency of testing relates to the environment and conditions that the equipment is in use. Each office environment is different and as such a standard time scale for the whole sectors of industry are not really workable.

The IET provide the information to guide engineers in determining frequency of testing. Ultimately the decision rests with the company or person carrying out the testing. For example construction site equipment would be tested at least every 3 months and a small well maintained office may only require testing of IT equipment every 48 months.

Whilst we appreciate costs are important to our customers, we try to promote a testing frequency of 12 months were possible in most standard situations. This enables excellent item safety and provides asset tracking facility's. We want to have as many safe appliances in use as possible. A large office for example with multiple users at each workstation can be heavily used with possible damage to cables and equipment. We think it is better to review these locations much more regularly, at the very least visually inspecting each workstation annually.

There is a lot of information out in the industry regarding this and lots of different suppliers work to different frequency's. That is due to the varying nature of business in the UK. Ultimately you have to be happy with the supplier you choose to work closely on developing effective testing procedures for your company.

The end result of regular testing is safer equipment, if testing in excess of the minimum quoted timescale results in one less injury,fire or death then it is without doubt the correct way to proceed.

Seaward provide a handy overview in PDF format should you register at there site. I recommend you read this information. Apart from the obvious advertising of there equipment some important information and tips can be found.

Please see http://www.seaward.co.uk/compliance_form.asp

For more information on our services see http://www.powersonic-online.co.uk

Thanks for reading and keep checking back

Power Sonic Ltd.

Region PAT Testing

It is with great pleasure that we can report 2008 has begun in a very good manner.

Whilst maintaining excellent standards of service we have welcomed 20 new clients into our testing program.

These new clients are benefiting from the extensive testing service available at the low rates we provide.

We hope to welcome many more new clients in the coming months and look forward to developing our services further.

We are currently reviewing our testing equipment (Seaward primetest 300) and hoping to add to our range in the near future.

Also under consideration is our vehicle fleet, currently the Fiat Doblo 1.3D multi jet van. We are considering a change over to pick up trucks but appreciate this may impact our foot print on the environment. We will consider this when making our final choice as we are keen to keep all emissions to a minimum.

Tomorrows blog is going to centre around frequency of testing so keep an eye out for our input in this area.

For any information on our services visit http://www.powersonic-online.co.uk

Thanks for looking

Power Sonic Ltd

Portable appliance testing legislation, pat testing

It has been mentioned by numerous customers regarding the lack of information about the legal requirements for pat testing.

We hope to be able to shed light on the situation via our blog.

Whilst no legal statement exists making pat testing mandatory it does form part of a wider range of legal requirements. Further more in depth information is available on our website http://www.powersonic-online.co.uk

Also the issue of frequency of testing seems to be an issue which we will address in future blogs. The IET issue guidelines for this but usually the decision rests with the engineers who assess the environment with which the equipment is in use. It should also be noted the IET suggests maximum time periods between tests. We would encourage customers to be more pro active and maintain some form of annual test and inspections.

We are happy to advise on frequency of testing issues before we quote.

This is just a brief intro as to these two issues, watch out for further updates over the coming days. Should you like to make any comments for inclusion in our blog please email: service@powersonic-online.co.uk

Thanks

Power Sonic Ltd

pat testing method statement

Hi and welcome back to our blog, we hope your enjoying reading it so far. Over time it should fill up with lots of information on portable appliance testing (PAT testing).

As mentioned in earlier blogs we are putting our method statement onto this blog for you to review.

It gives an indication to the level of service on offer. If you can think of anything as a potential or current client that will improve our working methods we would love to hear about them.

Please email: service@powersonic-online.co.uk with any thoughts/suggestions. Alternatively visit http://www.powersonic-online.co.uk/ and follow the links to our email.

Well here goes and happy blogging.

Power Sonic Ltd


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PAT testing Method statement

Check out our blog in the coming days for a full version of our current method statement.

You can then see the full service on offer and our promises to all our customers.

Method statements provide a cornerstone to all good business relationships.

We also hope to add our risk assessments, insurance and registration details in the very near future.

Business transparency and fair trading is a priority in the service we offer.

Keep a look out for the information coming soon.

Power Sonic Ltd

http://www.powersonic-online.co.uk/

PAT Testing Blog

After much consideration we have decided to begin our own blog revolving around our core business activities.

We are currently undertaking some substantial portable appliance testing work and would like to keep current and potential customers up to speed on what we are doing.

PAT Testing is our passion its our speciality area and we believe we offer the best service pound for pound in the market. We hope our current customers will agree with this.

Over the coming days we will introduce some further information through our blog, for example we are going to go cover the current test equipment we are using, give engineer and office staff profiles and look at the various types of labelling we use.

We hope to introduce as much information as possible.

Look out for the posts and you can always drop us any feedback to service@powersonic-online.co.uk

Many Thanks for you interest

Power Sonic Ltd