PAT Testing Planner
How many tests a year, what it should cost and which items need what. Built on the Compliance Buyer cycle: normal appliances every two years, high risk items every year, tools every three months, and a competent visual of everything every year.
Intervals sit inside the IET Code of Practice, 5th Edition. The law asks you to maintain equipment so it does not cause danger. It does not say how. This is how.
Inventory by category
How this works
Year one. A competent engineer gives every appliance a full inspection and test. That builds the register: every item, its class, where it lives, its result. Without the register you cannot manage anything.
Year two. A formal visual inspection of everything by a competent person. A full test of the high risk items only: kitchen equipment, anything hand held, anything with a damage history, anything the engineer flagged last time. Year three goes back to year one.
Tools are the exception. Power tools, hire kit and site equipment get a full test every three months and a check before every issue.
Underneath all of it sits the rule that costs nothing. Every user looks at the cable, the plug and the casing before every use. A fault seen on Monday morning is worth more than a sticker from last March.