Electric Blanket Testing Electric blankets can provide us with warmth and comfort during the colder months but they can also be extremely dangerous. Jim’s Test & Tag have developed a system that provides a fully compliant test to AS/NZS 3760:2010. Be safe for winter and have one of our technicians check yours before use. Electrical Risk Assessment Our technicians are fully trained to undertake an electrical hazards survey of your workplace. Emergency and Exit Lights Imagine for a second you are sitting at your desk and all the power was cut to the premises. For people inside your workplace, it could be a frightening or dangerous experience – especially if there were no exit signs or emergency luminaries (Lights) to help them evacuate safely. Even if you know where all the exits are located and all the exit lights seem to be in working order, regular testing and maintenance is the only way to minimise the risk of faulty exit lights in an emergency situation, which will ultimately help to increase the safety for employees and clients in your workplace. It is a legislative requirement for employers to undertake emergency lighting testing throughout the workplace. Jim’s Test & Tag can assist in ensuring your emergency and exit lights are working by performing professional exit light testing to certify these essential signs are in working order. This ensures that your employees and visitors are able to exit a dangerous situation as safely as possible. We can test your exit lights, test and tag all of your electrical appliances and conduct safety switch checks – making sure your workplace is as safe as it can possibly be when it comes to electricity. It is an OH&S requirement to undertake electrical safety checks and at Jim’s Test & Tag, we make the process easy with scheduled inspections and the provision of documented log books and asset registers. Call us today to organise a Jim’s Test & Tag specialist to visit your workplace. Safety Switch (RCD) Safety Switches, or Residual Current Devices (RCDs) are designed to save lives. They operate by tripping (cutting the electricity supply) when an electrical current imbalance is detected. Where an imbalance occurs, it is possible for the current to flow through a person touching the faulty appliance causing an electric shock. It is imperative therefore that the RCD trips and trips within the required time. You should ensure that you conduct regular RCDs testing in accordance with your industries and state based regulations. Usually electrical shocks occur from faulty appliances and leakages in the power circuit, which is why electrical testing and tagging in conjunction with an RCD testing is such a valuable precautionary process. In addition to regular testing and tagging, RCD’s help to further minimise the risk of injury or death from an electrical shock. This makes RCD testing really important part of ensuring electrical safety in the work place or domestic premises. Jim’s Test & Tag service can make sure your RCD is in proper working order, so that should any electrical accidents occur, you have done all you can to reduce the potential of injury or death. It is imperative that RCD’s are checked on a regular basis with professional RCD testing, to ensure they are in proper working order as prescribed in AS/NZS 3760:2010. Smoke Alarms Have you ever heard your fire alarm beep with a flat battery and ignored it? Or worse still, pulled the battery out and accidently left it out for a night or longer? Smoke alarms are now mandatory in dwellings across most Australian states, with reports that fire alarms can reduce house fire deaths by up to 60%. If you don’t want to put your family at risk, it’s best to install a quality smoke alarm and undertake regular smoke alarm testing, which will give you the confidence to sleep soundly. To truly complete your smoke alarm testing it’s imperative that you ensure the unit can ‘see’ or ‘smell’ the smoke, we do this with a smoke simulation on each unit- simply pressing the test button only ensures the alarm itself works, we will also replace the batteries whenever we test your smoke alarms, so you’ll never hear that annoying beep again. Many home owners and rental properties also have fire blankets and fire extinguishers to ensure that if there is ever a fire emergency, they have the tools at hand to help reduce the risk of injury to their family and minimise damage to the home. At Jims Test & Tag, we can perform fire extinguisher testing and fire blanket testing so that in the moment when you need it most, it works exactly the way it’s supposed to. If your current house hold or rental property requires installation of the correct extinguisher and/or fire blanket we can supply and install on site. If you want your family and home to be as safe as possible when it comes to precautionary fire methods, we’ll do everything we can to make sure your alarms and extinguishers do their job properly and protect you, your loved ones and your property. Call us today to organise a Jim’s Test & Tag specialist to visit your domestic premises or Rental property. Extinguishers and Blankets At Jims Test & Tag, we can perform fire extinguisher testing so that in the moment when you need it most, it works exactly the way it’s supposed to. Fire extinguisher testing and Fire blanket testing mandatory and is carried out by our fully training technician as prescribed in AS/NZS 1851. If you want your workplace to be as safe as possible when it comes to precautionary fire methods, we’ll do everything we can to make sure your alarms, extinguishers, hose reels and blankets do their job properly and protect you, your employees and visitors onsite. Call us today to organise a Jim’s Test & Tag specialist to visit your workplace.