PAT Testing (EET Testing) Training
This PAT Testing (EET Testing) Training course is for anyone who works in a low-risk environment and wants to understand checks and PAT Testing, now commonly referred to as Electrical Equipment Testing.
Poorly maintained electrical equipment can cause incidents that have devastating consequences
- Health & Safety
- 40 languages
- 5m
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Learning outcomes
- Know which equipment needs testing and how to determine equipment class
- Know what’s involved in Electrical Equipment Testing (PAT testing)
- Understand your legal EET responsibilities
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Course contents
This training course is broken down into 3 sections
- 1An Introduction to Testing
- 2User Check & Visual Inspection
- 3EET Test Basics
About this course
Even though it fuels our day-to-day life, electricity also poses a lot of hazards. Faulty electrical equipment can cause serious electric shocks, burns, irregular heartbeats, respiratory damage, trigger fires and explosions, and, ultimately, be fatal.
This is why it’s so important to properly maintain electrical equipment, especially appliances that are used often and moved around a lot. You can normally spot defects and potentially dangerous faults with visual checks, but sometimes the equipment also needs to undergo extra electrical testing to confirm that it’s safe, or to find hidden problems – this is where Electrical Equipment Testing, known as EET testing, comes into play.
In this course, we explain which equipment needs testing and how to determine equipment class; we discuss legal responsibilities; we explain visual inspections and how to conduct them; and we explore what EET testing is, including the different types.
This course isn’t suitable if you work in a high-risk environment like a school, a factory, or a construction site. This is the course for you if you work in a low-risk environment, like an office. In this course, we provide an accurate overview of the inspection and testing process, but you must only conduct EET tests if they’re low-risk and you’re safe, confident, and competent.
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The importance of PAT Testing (EET Testing) Training
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PAT Testing (EET Testing) Training certificate
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This PAT Testing (EET Testing) Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your PAT Testing (EET Testing) Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
Why is this training important?
Business benefits
There’s no law that mentions EET testing explicitly, but the Health and Safety at Work Act says that employers have a duty to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of employees and anyone else in or around the workplace, including those who work from home. This means taking reasonable precautions to control electrical risks. So, how can this be done? Well, employers must include electrical safety in risk assessments.
Risk assessments are an employer’s duty under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. A risk assessment must highlight who might get hurt by the hazards, how the level of risk has been determined, and what control measures are in place to minimise the risks – things like EET testing. If your organisation has five or more employees, risk assessment findings must be written down, and even if there are fewer than five of you, it’s still a good idea to keep a written record so you can refer back to it at any point. The findings can also be used to create a new, or tweak an existing, inspection and testing schedule.
There’s also the Electricity at Work Regulations that say electrical systems and appliances must be checked and maintained to prevent danger, but it doesn’t say how electrical equipment must be maintained, who should do it, or how often. So, this is where checking equipment before using it, doing visual inspections, and EET testing helps to fulfil this duty. The regulations also say that anyone who’s in control of electrical equipment or carrying out tests on it must be knowledgeable, experienced, and trained. You don’t have to be an electrician, but you have to know your stuff.
Then there’s the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations, or PUWER. Employers must make sure that all equipment, including electrical appliances, is suitable for its intended use, which includes making sure equipment is well maintained, working properly, and in good condition. Again, skilled EET testing proves that this legal obligation has been met.
