The Trade Association Built to Raise Standards — and Support Your Business If you work in Portable Appliance Testing, you already know there is more to the job than just plugging in a tester and printing labels. It’s about professionalism. It’s about trust It’s about running a sustainable business in a competitive industry. It's about hard work, repetition and often a lot of time working alone. That’s exactly why PATTA exists. The Portable Appliance [...]
PAT testing Adaptors A PAT tester has to carry a whole range of adaptors in his kit, to ensure he can test all the different appliances. We need to carry blue adaptors for 230v industrial equipment, yellow adaptors for 110v equipment often found on building sites and red adaptors for 3-phase equipment. There's then additional adaptors such as T-shaped earth pin plugs, theatre lighting, foreign plugs and so on. All in all a [...]
How much should I charge per item to PAT test? This has got to be the most asked question on PATTA forums and Facebook groups - how much do I charge per item? Everyone wants to know how much everyone else is charging, when what they should be doing is concentrating on working out the best price to charge for them. I can't tell you what to charge, and what I charge may [...]
Helpful Guidance and Useful Links 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. Electrical Safety Links Maintaining Portable Electrical Equipment - HSG107 Maintaining Portable electrical equipment in low risk environments - INDG236 Electrical Safety and [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Beyond the Code of Practice PATTA is having an afternoon event on Friday 20th May, when our guest speaker, Jim Wallace will be talking to us about “Beyond the Code of Practice”. This is a face to face event; come and listen / speak to independent Standards Specialist Mr Jim Wallace, formerly of Seaward Electronics talk about "Beyond the Code of Practice", with an opportunity to also network with other PAT testers. Tim [...]
It is with great sadness that we have to post this news update, but we have lost one of our own, our good friend and colleague; Andrew Mitchell. Andrew sadly passed away on Sunday 9th January 2022 after battling with a long term illness. Andrew was a major part in the founding of PATTA and quickly became a key member to help form our working standards back in 2018. Andrew has been a [...]
