subject: How Can Pat Testing Equipment Save My Company Money? [print this page] Investing in PAT testing equipment can save you money because you can train your own employees to use the equipment, and you will never have to hire an outside firm to do the work again. PAT testing equipment does not have to be complicated to use, and they offer training courses to teach people the proper way to use it.
If you train just one employee how to use the pat testing equipment, you can put them in charge of all your PAT testing from now on. Another way to make it save your company even more money is to have that employee train more of your employees. This way you pay for training once, and train as many as you like. If you think of it like I said above, you get endless training for your people, and only pay for it one time. That is a great way to save money, and always have employees that will use the PAT testing equipment to test your small appliances.
What is a formal visual inspection?
This is the process of simply doing a visual inspection of the appliance itself, and the cord, switches, and any other components that can be visually inspected. The fact is that this is the process where 90% of all problems are found.
There are a lot of different types of pat testing equipment on the market, you need to do your research on the equipment before you go to buy it. If you don't like to research things you can ask another member of you team to take it on as aproject.
How can I continue to save money with PAT testing equipment?
First and foremost you can prevent your company form ever having to pay a hospital bill because an employee was electrocuted or injured by faulty equipment.
After you train one employee to use the PAT testing equipment, put them in charge of training the other employees how to use it.
Do your research on the testers; there are a lot of different kinds of pat testing equipment to choose from.
If your have a technical minded person on your team, ask them to research the product and submit their suggestions to your before you approve anything.
It will help ensure that all of your small appliances are in good working order, and let you know when they need to be replaced.
If you are a smart business man, or woman you already know the value of well trained lifetime employees, if you do what I said above you can have them. You will always have people who are trained in the correct usage of portable appliance testers.
In conclusion your can get a lifetime trained employee to operate the pat testing equipment if you follow my suggestions above. It is easy to do, and you create a safer workplace when you do it. That is a good argument for not having this done by an outside firm.
How Can Pat Testing Equipment Save My Company Money?
