Local District Councils Guide to Portable Appliance Testers – where to start?
Whether you’re a small district council with a handful of community buildings or a larger council managing libraries, pools, community halls, parks facilities, and office buildings across a wide area, keeping on top of testing and tagging the electrical appliances in your facilities is something that needs to be part of your maintenance planning. With staff and the public relying on everything from kitchen appliances in community halls to heaters in meeting rooms and extension leads at events, having a reliable process in place — and the right equipment to carry it out — is something worth getting right from the beginning.
A great starting point for councils is the iPAT 2 SupaPAT, which gives you real safety testing rather than just a tick-box compliance exercise. It is a full solution setup, with the most auditable solution on the market. Its 10 Amp earthbond capability means you’re testing to a standard that actually matters for appliances that get regular use across multiple council sites.
If you are testing across a smaller number of council buildings and want to keep things straightforward, or you have a third-party provider doing testing without a printer, using your own custom printed labels are a great option for manually tagging appliances after testing. Having your council name or logo on the tag looks professional and makes it clear to staff, hirers, and the public that the equipment has been tested and who is responsible for maintaining it.
If you are managing a larger spread of facilities across your district or want a more complete setup that handles record keeping and tag printing all in one go, then the EasiPAT 10 Pro Kit is worth a serious look. It comes in a heavy-duty case with a tablet and printer already set up, so everything you need to test, record, and tag is ready to go from day one. For a council wanting to do all their own testing, or the option as a backup when needed, with a professional result, this is the setup that makes it easy.
One accessory that often gets overlooked in council facility testing is a microwave tester. Microwaves are one of the most common appliances across council kitchens, staff rooms, and community hall fit-outs, and a standard PAT tester alone won’t tell you whether the microwave door seal is leaking radiation. The CEM DT-2G Microwave Tester is an affordable addition that checks for this and gives you real confidence that the appliance is safe for both staff and the public to use — not just electrically compliant.
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