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A bizarre title I know but as anyone knows when you hit a certain age your eyesight for reading starts to get worse and you end up needing reading glasses. All those times you took the pee out of four eyed children at primary school come back to haunt you.
Anyway I pitch up for any eye test today with my local opticians with my logoed electrical business polo shirt on and she confirms to my horror that I have a floater in my eye!!!!!!!! Google it because it's new to me.
Anyway she says do you do PAT testing, so I thought ok a bit of business. I say how many items ish. So I think sounds ok. But I don't have a PAT tester but I have a kewtech adaptor to use with my MFT that I have used when a landlord wants a couple of items checked and approved.
I am NICEIC Domestic approved but to be PAT approved with them you need to pass the 2 x C&G exams costing in the region of £400 and pay them an additional amount for registration which I think is about another £400-500? It seems stupid really if all you need to do with a PAT tester is push a few buttons but understand what you are doing.
To PAT test the H&S rules say you need to be a competent. Which I hope I am because I have all the relevant qualifications, experience and I am registered.
Is there anything to stop me PAT testing an issuing my own certs if I do it outside of NICEIC? I can buy a Seward 100 for about £200, but if I do the opticians testing she will let me have my new lenses costing £120 for free.
Anyway I pitch up for any eye test today with my local opticians with my logoed electrical business polo shirt on and she confirms to my horror that I have a floater in my eye!!!!!!!! Google it because it's new to me.
Anyway she says do you do PAT testing, so I thought ok a bit of business. I say how many items ish. So I think sounds ok. But I don't have a PAT tester but I have a kewtech adaptor to use with my MFT that I have used when a landlord wants a couple of items checked and approved.
I am NICEIC Domestic approved but to be PAT approved with them you need to pass the 2 x C&G exams costing in the region of £400 and pay them an additional amount for registration which I think is about another £400-500? It seems stupid really if all you need to do with a PAT tester is push a few buttons but understand what you are doing.
To PAT test the H&S rules say you need to be a competent. Which I hope I am because I have all the relevant qualifications, experience and I am registered.
Is there anything to stop me PAT testing an issuing my own certs if I do it outside of NICEIC? I can buy a Seward 100 for about £200, but if I do the opticians testing she will let me have my new lenses costing £120 for free.