POWERTAG® Currently provides electrical testing and tagging services to the following areas across NSW & QLD : Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Lennox Head, Ballina, Alstonville, Lismore, Casino, Kyogle, Murwillumbah, Brunswick Heads, Goonellabah, Evans Head, Tweed Heads, Coolangatta, Currumbin, Palm Beach, Burleigh Heads, Broadbeach, Miami, Mermaid Beach, Surfers Paradise, Southport, Nerang, Molendinar, Ashmore, Mudgeeraba, Robina, Reedy Creek, Varsity Lakes, Benowa, Bundall, Carrara, Yatala, Beenleigh, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Slacks Creek, Shailer Park, Kingston, Darra, Kenmore, Moorooka, Carindale, Toowong, Albany Creek, Richlands, Wacol, Acacia Ridge, Coopers Plains, Salisbury, West End, Fortitude Valley, Ipswich, Staplyton.

Testing Intervals

This table is to be used as a guide only. Information is gathered from Australian Standards/New Zealand Standards 3760:2003 – In-Service Safety Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment.
 





Type of equipment and/or
equipment
 
(a)

Interval between inspection and tests

Class of Equipment

Residual Current Devices (RCDs)




Cord sets and
power boards
 
(h)
Class I


(protectively earthed)
(b)		 Class II


(double insulated)
(c)		 Push-button test – by user

Operating time & push button test

Portable
(d)

Fixed
(e)

 Portable
(f)		 Fixed
(g)
 

1. Factories, workshops, places of work or repair, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance or fabrication.

  

6 mths

 12 mths Daily, or before every use, whichever
is the longer		 6 mths 12 mths 12 mths

6 mths
 

2. Environment where the equipment or supply flexible cord is subject to flexing in normal use OR is open to abuse OR is in a hostile environment.

  

12 mths

 12 mths 3 mths 6 mths 12 mths 12 mths 12 mths
 

3. Environment where the equipment or supply cord is NOT subject to flexing in normal use and is NOT open to abuse and is NOT in a hostile environment.

  
5 years 5 years 3 mths

6 mths

 2 years 2 years 5 years
 

4. Residential type areas of: hotels, residential institutions, motels, boarding houses, halls, hostels accommodation houses, and the like.

  
2 years 2 years

6 mths

6 mths

 2 years 2 years 2 years