Learn how health and safety professionals use PAT to manage the risks posed by electricity in this free online course. Portable appliance testing (PAT) is an essential health and safety practice that ensures that electrical appliances are safe for use, thus minimising the risk of accidents. This health and safety training course lays out the principles, techniques and regulations relevant to PAT to help you safeguard lives and protect property. We go through electrical terminologies and abbreviations and outline the responsibilities of trained PAT technicians.
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Define ‘portable appliance testing’ (PAT) • Summarise the purpose and importance of portable appliance testing for ensuring health and safety • Analyse the relationships between electrical quantities and units • Recognise common electrical terms used in PAT • Outline the classifications of electrical equipment and their respective levels of protection against electric shock • Discuss the three types of in-service inspection and testing used in PAT • List the responsibilities of users, test operatives and duty holders in ensuring electrical safety • Describe the difference between user checks and formal visual inspection in PAT • Recall the order of tests in the in-service equipment testing process and the purpose of each test • Explain the importance of maintaining PAT documentation and records |
| Course Code | 5957 |
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