Portable Appliance Testing Clause Samples

Portable Appliance Testing. 5.11.1 Portable Appliance (and microwave emissions) Testing (PAT), of Customer equipment shall be carried out in accordance with this Specification. Where electrical equipment can be identified as personal and belonging to members of staff it shall not be tested, but recorded as such on the testing report. As a minimum, testing shall be implemented in accordance with the Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers and any other relevant legislation. PAT testing shall be risk based and take cognisance of individual equipment’s usage and location. The Contractor shall intimate the expected frequency based on the risk presented to the Class 1 and 2 electrical and electronic equipment of the Customer by the working environments within the premises. 5.11.2 The control and execution of this service shall be managed entirely by the CAFM system in line with the overall PPM regime and shall be subject to the same performance standards, whether carried out by the Contractor’s directly employed personnel or by sub-contracted personnel. The customer shall be fully informed of any concerns or recommendations identified following statutory inspection regimes. All reports and recommendations shall be held centrally within the CAFM system.