The PAT Tester
The In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment
Tel: 07850 656765
Welcome to The PAT Tester
Providing a Portable Appliance Testing service primarily for voluntary sector organisations, community centres, small businesses, housing associations, stall holders, the performing arts, church halls, private landlords, residential care home owners and many others in Bristol, South Wales and the South West. I also have a great deal of experience PAT Testing for supported-housing projects, including residential properties for men and women in recovery and safe houses.
My name is Bob Grainger. Trading as CompuTech Computing Services (please see my website: www.computechcomputing.com), I have been providing computer support for the voluntary sector, small businesses and individuals since 1989. I also provide a PAT Testing service. I am fully qualified in PAT Testing (City and Guilds 2377-200: Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment and 2377-100: Management of Electrical Equipment Maintenance). I am, of course, also fully insured. Up to this present time (July, 2010), I have carried out over four hundred PAT Testing jobs, and have tested over thirty thousand items.
I charge £1.50 per item tested (no VAT). The minimum charge is £60 per site (negotiable for same-day multiple sites with few items), but this does include up to the first forty items at that site (see 'What do you charge for PAT Testing?').
CRB/Police Check: There are three levels of CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) Check: Basic, Standard and Enhanced. Self-employed people, like myself, are unable to have themselves CRB checked to either Standard or Enhanced Disclosure level. However anyone, upon proof of identity and payment of the fee, is able to obtain a Basic Disclosure (for example, through Disclosure Scotland, an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government) and is also able to make a Subject Access Request to ACPO Criminal Records Office in Fareham to ask whether there is any information held about him/her on the Police National Computer. I have done both of these things, and am pleased to say that the documents sent to me from these two agencies show that there is no information held about me on the Police National Computer and that I do not have any criminal convictions or cautions. I am happy to bring these documents to any initial meeting, if you wished.
Finally, I occasionally get people phoning or emailing me because they have found this website very informative and would like to know more about the subject of PAT Testing, perhaps because they are just starting out in PAT Testing themselves, or maybe they are the owners of a business or care home and simply wish to know more about the legislation concerning PAT Testing. If you, dear reader, would like to republish any of the material contained within this website, perhaps for your own site or maybe for Health and Safety training, then please feel free to do so. Nothing here is copyright. However, an email to let me know what you're doing with the material would be nice and ideally, a link back from your site to this one would be appreciated. Thank you.
