DO YOU OWN OR MANAGE A BUSINESS?
ARE YOU PROVIDING A SAFE WORKPLACE ?
Every person,whether they be an employer, self employed ,employee, a customer engaging a trades person, a retailer inviting customers into the store has a duty of care under common law and the OH&S act to ensure that all electrical equipment ,used, hired or simply accessible is safe
CAN YOU PROVIDE WORK COVER WITH
- A record of Formal inspections and tests (Test and Tag Record supplied by an authorized tester)
- A repair Register (Client Responsible to keep and up to date)
- A record of faulty equipment (Client Responsible to keep and up to date)
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The Occupational Health and Safety Act places a duty of care to provide a safe workplace. Failure to maintain electrical equipment in a safe condition, or to use equipment in accordance with manufacturer's instructions may result in injury or death to yourself, employees, or other parties. To meet the duty of care it is necessary to ensure that risk of injury from electric shock for all people at the workplace is reduced as far as is reasonably practicable. A method of achieving this duty is by testing and tagging electrical equipment, and implementing procedures for use of electrical equipment.
"Portable electrical equipment, including flexible cords need to be regularly inspected for wear and mechanical damage, and periodically tested for earth continuity and insulation resistance. Procedures for testing of electrical leads, tools and equipment and the frequency of these tests can be found in: Joint Australian and New Zealand Standard AS/NZ 3760 In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment"
Testing and tagging of all portable appliances as per AS3760 should be a normal practice in all workplaces. If this is not the case in your workplace, you should approach your employer and request that this be done as soon as possible. If it is not done, then the employer is breaching Their duty's under Section 21.
Here at ADRIANS Test and Tag we offer qualified personal to test onsite or at our shop that's right just drop in your items and we can test and tag them to standard whilst giving you a printout for your work safe inspection review
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Email: adrian@pmct.com.au