RichardAyre

About Richard Ayre

Richard Ayre is Operations Director for PATTA. Also Managing Director of DRA PAT Testing Ltd.
https://linktr.ee/drapattesting

Helpful Guidance

This is where we post links to helpful guidance elsewhere on the internet; this could be links to websites, documents, etc. If you know of something that we should link to, include a link in the comments section below. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service allows: applicants to keep their DBS certificates up to date employers to check a DBS certificate The DBS Update Service on Gov.uk Fire Risk Assessments The responsible person for a workplace must carry out and regularly review a fire risk assessment of the premises. This will identify what they need to [...]

2024-02-25T22:20:10+00:00February 25th, 2024|Exclusive|Comments Off on Helpful Guidance

Member Directory – Add or Amend your directory listing

To list your business on the members directory, for use by other members and potential customers please complete this form.  When you do complete the form make sure that the information you provide is correct; that it includes correct capitalisation, correct punctuation, correct spellings etc. What you input will not be edited and will be published directly on the search index.  For the address, put each new line of the address on a new line, for example: 123 Fourth Avenue Smallville DN1 2TN NOT 123 Fourth Avenue, Smallville, DN1 2TN When inputting phone numbers do not use spaces between [...]

2024-02-25T16:47:54+00:00February 25th, 2024|Exclusive|Comments Off on Member Directory – Add or Amend your directory listing

Welcome to PATTA

Thank you for joining the Portable Appliance Testing Trade Association Whatever stage of business you’re at, whatever your place in the PAT testing industry, whether you’re employed, an employer or something else, thank you for joining us and we hope that we will be able to offer something to help you. The main aim of PATTA is to help improve the industry and improve buyers perception of PAT. We do this by representing the industry at events and meetings where appliance safety is discussed. PATTA aims to represent the industry where it needs it, and to try to [...]

2024-02-25T11:49:17+00:00February 5th, 2024|Exclusive|Comments Off on Welcome to PATTA

Correct use of the PATTA logo

Members of the Portable Appliance Testing Trade Association can use the PATTA logo and provided variations of it, but they cannot make changes to it. Members can use it to show that they are members of PATTA, and to promote PATTA. If used on a website, the logo should include a link to the PATTA website, https://patta.co.uk , so when clicked on, a reader is directed to the PATTA website. The logo cannot be used for any other purpose; such as be used instead of the members’ own business logo. Any member found to be using the logo for [...]

2024-02-05T20:55:46+00:00February 5th, 2024|Exclusive|Comments Off on Correct use of the PATTA logo

Downloadable Documents

Here you will find downloadable documents only available to members. Documents for members will be posted onto this page, such as if we create Health and Safety documents for members to use.

2024-02-25T11:54:53+00:00February 1st, 2024|Exclusive|Comments Off on Downloadable Documents

How do you set your prices in the busy PAT testing market?

How much should I charge to PAT test is a regular question from new PAT testers. To answer it you need to take various factors into consideration for different people. When it comes to setting prices for your services, consider the costs involved in your work, and how much you want to earn. But you also need to do some research to work out what the prices are in your area: If you want to charge more how can you present your service to be better than theirs, or If you think you can charge less, how can you [...]

2023-01-25T18:48:26+00:00January 25th, 2023|Business Guidance|Comments Off on How do you set your prices in the busy PAT testing market?

Cashflow: Are you having problems getting paid?

Managing Cashlow in your PAT Testing business We see it all the time, people on forums asking for help with late payers. It happens to every business from time to time and is something that needs managing, often with care and professionalism. However, you can put systems in place so you don't have to worry about late payments. Let's look at your options. Cashflow is king to every business. Understanding the importance of cashflow is essential to operating a successful business. Without cash circulating through your business it will become increasingly difficult to operate. As a PAT [...]

2023-01-25T18:25:59+00:00January 25th, 2023|Business Guidance|Comments Off on Cashflow: Are you having problems getting paid?

How TAP complements PAT

How TAP Compliments PAT How to make messy cables look neat and tidy It is a fact that in our so-called wireless age we’ve more cables than ever before. A recent survey by D-Line, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne based cable management experts, revealed that the typical UK desk accounts for average twenty-metres of exposed cables. If that sounds a lot, consider the phone, computer and monitor, printer and the rest, plus an extension socket, and various charger cables, and it’s easy to appreciate just how much we depend on cables to power our [...]

2022-10-13T10:29:24+00:00October 13th, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How TAP complements PAT

PATTA Event “Beyond the Code Of Practice”

Beyond the Code of Practice Take a look at the video of this summer's Portable Appliance Testing Trade Association's discussion group "Beyond the Code of Practice" This summer some of the Portable Appliance Testing Trade Association members got together in Nottingham for a discussion group around why the Code of Practice's content is what it is. The Code of Practice, issued by the Institute of Engineering and Technology is a book, for the In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment. The Code of Practice is written for anyone who conducts any type of inspection and testing of [...]

2024-02-26T16:09:43+00:00October 3rd, 2022|Code of Practice 5|Comments Off on PATTA Event “Beyond the Code Of Practice”
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