by Guy Brown | 2nd Mar, 2026 | PAT Testing
Portable Appliance Testing (PAT), also known as Electrical Equipment Testing (EET), isn’t just about ticking boxes, it’s about keeping people safe. While the 5th Edition of the IET Code of Practice put more emphasis on risk assessment (to avoid unnecessary testing),...
by Guy Brown | 5th Jan, 2026 | Frequently Asked Questions, PAT Testing
Even the pros slip up sometimes. Here’s how to avoid the most common traps of PAT testing that even the most experienced users can fall into. Avoiding these 12 mistakes can save time, hassle and most importantly, keep everyone safe. 1. Skipping the Visual Check Always...
by Guy Brown | 12th Nov, 2025 | PAT Testing
You might have heard the term Electrical Equipment Testing (EET) floating around lately and wondered whether it’s any different from Portable Appliance Testing (PAT). The short answer? It isn’t. The process is exactly the same, the name has simply been updated to...
by Jamie White | 15th Jun, 2021 | PAT Testing
Now I have you attention! Let’s talk about a subject few people want to when it comes to their Portable Appliance Testing, the risk assessment & frequency of test. This part of PAT seems to be brushed over by many and in my book (the 5th Edition of the IET Code of...
by Guy Brown | 19th Mar, 2018 | PAT Testing
If you have a medium to large number of appliances to test (e.g. upwards of several hundred), or are thinking of adding PAT testing to your portfolio of services, then a PAT testing system could well be worth investing in. Here we’ll define a system as a downloading...
by Razvan Fatu | 15th Aug, 2016 | PAT Testing
All electrical appliances using mains voltage have to provide at least 2 levels of protection to the user. This is to ensure that if one of the protection methods were to fail, there is the back-up of the second method still in place. This makes electrical equipment...
