Welcome to Safe Spark Group LTD

Based in the East Midlands, we provide a friendly professional, fast and efficient service, having over 10 years of experience within the industry, PAT services carried out at Schools, Colleges, Hotels, Offices, Care Homes, Public Houses. DJ Equipment and many more businesses big and small.

Why Choose Safe Spark UK Group LTD

  • City and Guilds 2377 Qualified Engineers

  • Fully insured & all engineers are Enhanced DBS Checked

  • Competitive prices & Flexible Service

  • Out of hours & Weekend testing

  • Asset management report & Completion certificate

  • Free minor repairs i.e. fuses, plug replacements

  • All documents sent to customer within 48 hours after completion

  • Minimal disruption to your business

  • Free reminder service letting you know when your retest is due

  • Free Quotations, Call today!

How often do you need to have a PAT test?

As the duty holder, its your responsibility to ensure your electrical appliances are safe, our recommendation would be to have full PAT inspection on annually basis.

As soon as your appliances are compliant, you wont have to worry about forgetting to get them tested again. Our free reminder service will let you know when its time to get in touch to book in your PAT testing.

Is PAT testing a legal requirement?

The electricity at work regulations 1989 make it your responsibility to make sure all your electrical equipment is safe to use. So you should regularly inspect, test and maintain electrical appliances to make sure they’re compliant. If you don’t do this, you could be putting yourself, your employees, and your business at risk.


What is tested in a PAT test?

we carry out a number of inspections and tests:

1 user checks

This informs the use or any potential danger signs, an appliance can fail on this check i.e a frayed cable can be marked as not safe to use.

2 Formal visual inspection

This is a simple process of visually inspecting all of the appliance for damage, exposed wires, missing parts. we also check inside the plug to make sure all wires are secure and the correct fuse is fitted into the appliance.

3 Combined inspections and testing

This is the main test, that involves using the PAT testing machine. This determines if the device is electrically safe to use.

We carry out the following tests

Class 1 test : checking earth continuity and insulation resistance

Class 2 test: checking insulation resistance

Class 3 test: formal visual inspection of low voltage appliances

Microwave emission test: checking levels of radiation that are emitted from the machine to follow recommended guidelines.

What needs to be PAT tested?

Any electrical appliance that has a plug needs to be PAT tested.

this may include any of the following:

Hand held equipment, stationary equipment, IT equipment, movable equipment under 18kg, fixed equipment i.e hand dryers.

Our testing equipment.

Seaward Apollo 600

Seaward Prime Test 100

Labels: safe spark follow the IET code of practice 5th edition even when it comes down to labels. All labels no longer have a retest date. We also like to make sure all our customers are aware if a formal visual inspection was carried out on a appliance this would be labelled with a blue label and also recorded on your report.

Why PAT testing is important?

Appliances we have reported to the duty holder and removed from service.

Floor standing heater which had a melted plug, burnt fuse and pins from overheating.

Another kettle found meted into the socket at the end of tenancy checkout from a landlords property.

Extension lead with a melted socket not only was the extension lead melted the appliance which we unplugged also had burnt pins and a melted plug.

Importance of a formal visual inspection, all the applainces below didnt even get past the formal visual inspection.

Another fail without being tested. Visual inspections and regular user checks could of found this fault before the annual PAT test.

Another microwave failed its formal visual inspection and withdrawn from service.

Exposed wires on a power lead we always make sure to do a full flex check from plug to the appliance.

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