PAT test laptops

[ozydave]

Hello all

Just wondering if you PAT staff issued laptops every year.

Once we issue laptops here we hardly see them again till the staff member leaves!

[jamesreedersmith]

Technically you cant pat test a laptop - just the supply but depends on what your RA says - i normally say 6 months for laptop supplies due to the drequency of movement and likely hood of damage etc.

[twin--turbo]

1st thing you should do is tell SLT that staff have a duty under H&S to inspect visually their supply and it's mains cord weekly for defects and to stop using it as soon as any defect is found. Failure to do so is a breach of H&S and probably their contract of employment.

 

2nd expect no 1 not to happen.

 

3rd, as pointed out the laptop is not subject to PAT as it's a low voltage device. So it is just the PSU.

 

(Next is a guideline if no one else has laid down the law, but it's a guide not a MUST or should)

4th. Generate a list of all the supplies, get them through your pat test and serailise them so you know what's what. Then schedule staff on a 3 month basis to bring it in for a visual inspection, and 24 monthly full test. Inform staff that they should be doing their own visual inspection, and feed back any info on obviously dangerous incidents to you H&S team.

 

Rob