I just wanted to share my opinion about the quality of service that was done in my company by Hawkesworth Appliance Testing.
Just noticed that this post is about working for Hawktest so my opinion is a little bit off topic.
It was first time that our company was using PAT testing service and I was a little bit sceptical about the whole "PAT testing" thing, so was following engineer (when he was not looking) for few hours
Cos I was "spying" engineer when he was working
no engineer was now walking with measure tape and check each cable length... 99% of the cables we have are standard 1m or 1.5m
Yes he did open most of the plugs and replace some fuses (old fuses were returned to me at the end of the service)
Report had some faults listed and it also specified if there was a visual check done or the lead was tested. Visual check was done on the servers cables and some other devices that could not be switched off.
For me it means that this company is up to date with technology.
Also I've like the fact that I could see the report after few minutes when the job was finished.
Why overpay when you can get similar quality of service for less money.
(I'm assuming that other companies will test the cables the same way that Hawktest did,
can't say for 100% as this was 1st PAT testing service )