As an employer you have a duty of care to provide a safe workplace for all employees as part of Occupation Health and Safety (OH&S) standards. Testing and tagging your appliances reduces your duty of care as you are minimising the harm of electricity in your environment.

TTSA offers a full test and tagging service in accordance with AS3760:2003, using the latest in Portable Appliance Testers (PAT), which tests, prints and stores the information in the machine for easy downloading, recording and generating a log book and asset register. Our fully computerized PAT ensures accuracy no matter what your testing - from computer systems to demolition hammers.

TTSA ensures that your equipment is always current and will make contact to organise testing of your appliances before the expiry date.

Workcover NSW has amended laws regarding testing and tagging of appliances. Only Equipment used for construction work or equipment used in a hostile environment where mechanical damage could occur or that the equipment is exposed to moisture, heat, vibration corrosion or dust need to be tested. For example, electrical equipment used in wet or dusty areas, outdoors, commercial kitchens, workplaces using corrosive substances and factory-type environments including assembly, fabrication, manufacturing, refurbishment or repair.

To support the application of a risk management approach to electrical safety, you must also comply with the specific legislative requirements outlined in clause 64 and 65 of the OHS Regulation 2001.

Clause 64 (2) requires,

• all electrical equipment that is used in construction work to be regularly inspected, tested and maintained by a competent person to ensure it is safe for use, and
• all electrical equipment that is used at a place of work where the safe operation of the electrical equipment could be affected by a hostile operating environment is regularly inspected, tested and maintained by a competent person to ensure it is safe for use, and
• all electrical equipment at a place of work that is found to be unsafe is disconnected from the
  electricity supply and is repaired, replaced or permanently removed from use.

Clause 65 (1) requires,

• that an employer must ensure that a record is made and kept of all inspections and tests made and maintenance carried out on electrical equipment.

In clause 64 of the Regulation a hostile operating environment means an operating environment at a place of work where an item of electrical equipment is, in its normal use, subject to operating conditions that are likely to result in damage to the item of equipment. This includes an operating
environment that may:

• cause mechanical damage to the item of equipment, or
• expose the item of equipment to moisture, heat, vibration, corrosive substances or dust that is
  likely to result in damage to the item of equipment.