PAT Testing. Equipment register.

[Pete999]

Agree but the Duty holder needs to add it to the register prior to being put into use.

Think I had better exit from this discussion, incase I get a warning

 

[martinbebb]

Thanks for the answers.
has pointed me in the correct direction. The manager/duty holder had questions that I said I'd get definitive answers for. Like I said I'm reading the literature, but just wanted a little help with this one topic. So I could answer the question.

 

[Deleted member 105166]

Martin, as you are doing this as your main job, it may help if you take the 2377-32 exam as well, this covers the management side

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I don’t think it really matters who adds it to the Register.
Obviously adding it at the time of purchase is better than waiting until someone comes to test it.

 

[martinbebb]

Ok thanks. I’m not actually doing any testing at the moment. I have a job already. I’m trying to find my feet first. I don’t have any actually PAT Testing work until November, That’s when the next test are due on this job, so I have until then to be actually ready.

 

[pirate]

A company should appoint a controller. He or she is the person who decides inter alia on the frequency of tests and the items to be tested.
Most controllers have this thrust upon them, and accept the post reluctantly, thus they employ you to do the work...and, if you choose to accept the mission, advise them accordingly. If you accept that mission, you must be extra diligent, and of course charge more for that responsibility. That is the happy, perfect scenario...but most companies just want stickers on everything... and if you bin that dodgy extension lead from the big river, they will dig it out of the bin as soon as you are back in your van.
One day, not long ago, I saw that ny routine visit to one office had been usurped...she told me that a new guy had come along last week and did the job for half my price, and she was sorry but she had forgotten to cancel me.
I shrugged, and went two doors down to Greggs for a coffee...where, in the queue, an employee of the office told me that the boss had simply bought a roll of "Pass" stickers from a well-known store, and stuck them on everything..."because they are working fine"...

In every job I have had in my life, I always hear the same refrain from those who believe in doing a proper job...
"I mean...you try to help someone........"
Little wonder that we often just give up...

 

[pirate]

Thanks Ruston!
Just getting that in there before my post gets deleted like the other one in a PA testing thread did a few minutes ago!
Apparently, it was a rant...my behind! It was the truth! Plenty of folks rant on here!
If it wasn't for the fact I am enjoying the sun here so much I would take it up with the mods...but what's the point?

Quite a few have left this forum because of suffering censorship of validly held views, and the forum is a poorer place for that.

 

[ruston]

Your post is still showing on my PC . It has not been deleted as far as I can see.

 

[pirate]

It was in the other thread "PAT testing needed?"

 

[ruston]

Ah . Ok . I'm a bit slower than usual today lol.