PAT training courses are available via the University Safety Office. Each departmental P.A.Tester should be checked on an annual basis, while test equipment from the pool is checked prior to issue and, on return to the Safety Office. Test equipment from the pool is available to departments via a booking system. Departments are advised to plan their testing programmes and, to book equipment well in advance. At certain periods of the year such as Easter, Christmas and, the Summer recess, the demand for test equipment is very high.
Departments are of course at liberty to purchase approved test equipment using departmental funds.
All orders must be monitored by the Safety Office to ensure equipment standardisation and, to maintain a central register of equipment. It may be convenient to incorporate these results into an existing inventory record system or, to record the results on standard P.A.T. record cards. These may be obtained from the University Safety Office. Where difficulties are experienced in attaching the standard P.A.T. label to smaller items of electrical equipment or, onto certain surfaces. After 1997 the colour cycle is repeated.