Electrical Test and Tag

To ensure that you meet your national and state OH&S obligations under the various state Acts and regulations either as an employer, or self-employed person, or as a manager or supervisor of a business or public place; and to ensure that members of the public are not at risk of hazards and potential harm when present at your business site.

These requirements are known as your “duty of care” which obligates employers to:

• Ensure the health and safety plus the welfare of employees and other people at work
• Eliminate risks and hazards in the work place
• Protect the public from risk or harm

All States Safety Services have procedures in place to remove physical risk, where possible from service. We will install “Danger do not use tags” to those appliances affected. When a failed item is found this is addressed immediately with the site contact to maintain a high level of electrical safety for your work place. Such information is also detailed with a separate certificate, within the data management report, at the completion of the work (in accordance with AS/NZS3760:2012).

• 10% of items fail at the first inspection at most workplaces
• 80% of fires are related and caused by electrical equipment malfunction
• You potentially risk losing your insurance coverage because you have not provided best safety practice
• Every business has a legal requirement to document workplace health and safety risk and produce records of the procedures taken to reduce or eliminate risks.

Yes, however it does pay to check with your insurance company. Occupational health and safety laws and regulations make it mandatory to carry out electrical inspections and provide safe workplaces. You must show that you have in place; training for staff to identify problems, undertake formal inspections, have a record of tested and inspected equipment, carry out inspections and test and tagging when required depending on the environment.

What we provide on completion – 

• PDF formatted report or if required CD, CSV file or hard copy
• Future reminder notice to reschedule work
• 7 years of data information kept for you
• Reliable backup service including “new to service” tags
• Benefits of this style of report is that it reduces your workload. We just don’t test and tag, we do the paperwork as well.
• We provide an asset management system
• A report that is very easy to read and understand (compared to hand written reports)
• Maintenance of the report for any future information and reference
• Emailable reports for audit control and insurance requirements
• On-site information required for customers and site requirements

Tests performed are as follows:

• Visual inspection
• Insulation resistance
• Earth continuity
• Polarity
• Earth leakage

Following testing, compliant equipment shall be fitted with a durable, non-reusable, non-metallic tag and may be colour coded to idendify the period in which the test was performed and shall include all the following information- the name of the person or company who performed the inspection and test; the testor inspection date, a retest date and a reference to AS/NZS 3760-2012.

A register of all equipment; a record of formal inspection and tests; a repair register; a record of faulty equipment showing details of the services or corrective actions.

Where records are kept, they should be retained for 7 years, or such period as required by the relevant regulator. It is acceptable for the purposes of the this standard to keep these records in electronic format, if this is the preferred method.