Commercial EICR Testing Must be carried out at least every 5 years or change of occupancy to comply with the latest regulations and validate your insurance.
Who Is Qualified to Carry Out Your Electrical Testing?
Electrically competent persons, such as NICEIC registered electrical Companies such as Able Electricians. We have carried out thousands of electrical tests over the years
What Happens During Your EICR Electrical Test?
Testing starts by detailing any observed damage, deterioration, defects, dangerous conditions, and any non-compliance with the present-day safety standard that might give rise to danger. Then we will carry out a full EICR Electrical test on all circuits. Once completed we can produce a certificate. This will highlight any Non-Compliances. Should there be any we can provide a quote to fix them and re-issue a fully compliant certificate.
Having reliable Emergency Lighting can give you, your staff, and your visitors peace of mind should you ever find yourself relying on them in the event of an incident. It’s important to tick the correct legal boxes and put safety and security first for your business with the correct certification.
We provide Emergency Lighting Testing and Maintenance on a schedule to suit your business, including monthly and yearly testing. We will assess the locations of your lighting to ensure they’re in the best possible position in the event of an incident, as well as checking it is in full working order. We also test all the essential components such as switches, batteries, luminaries and control equipment.
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As of April 2021, landlords are legally obliged to provide a valid Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) to both existing and new tenants. This report ensures that the property’s electrical systems meet safety standards.
As a landlord, you are responsible for ensuring the safety of all electrical installations and any appliances provided within the property. You must ensure that these are safe at the start of a new tenancy and are maintained throughout the tenant’s stay.
Failure to comply with these regulations can result in significant penalties, including fines of up to £30,000. Additionally, your property insurance could be voided, and in cases of serious or repeated offenses, banning orders may be imposed.
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Emergency lighting is the ‘back-up’ lighting that kicks in when there’s a power cut to the mains supply which would otherwise plunge a building into darkness.
It has to be properly designed, installed, maintained and tested by qualified electricians in order to meet regulations.
At EICR Testing, our expert engineers take the worry out of the whole process for you by ensuring that your systems are up to date, up to standard, well maintained and above all, provide the required level of safety for your employees and customers in the event of an emergency.
You can be broken down into three different categories:
Emergency escape lighting: When people need to leave a building in an emergency and the power has gone out, such as in the event of fire, emergency lighting covers all escape routes. The aim is safely guiding people to their nearest exit via lit escape routes.
Emergency safety lighting: This applies when power has failed, but it’s not an emergency situation. Emergency safety lighting is enough for people to remain in areas of a building while power is restored, but it’s not enough to carry on working.
Standby lighting: This is back-up lighting that is activated during a power cut to a level that allows work to continue. This has to be 100% of the normal lighting.
For safety reasons most commercial properties, including workplaces, retail, leisure and public buildings (and some domestic properties) need some form of emergency lighting and there are different requirements relating to different categories of building.
Risk assessments are usually necessary to determine what level of emergency lighting system is needed.
Rules and regulations around emergency lighting have toughened up in recent years and the legal obligations for installing emergency lighting systems now carry the same importance as fire alarm systems.
Relative legislation includes the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety Order), the Health and Safety at Work Act, Building Regulations and the EU Workplace Directive.
Emergency lighting regulation is covered by a variety of British Standards at each stage of the process, including general advice about the provision of emergency lighting (BS 5266-1:2016), the specified illumination (BS EN 1838: 2013), minimum requirements for the provision and testing of emergency lighting for different premises and various product standards (BE EN 50172:2004/BS 5265:2004).
All emergency lighting needs to be regularly tested by qualified electricians in accordance with safety standards. This is to ensure it is working correctly, compatible with fire safety systems and continues to meet regulations – for example, if you’ve redesigned or refurbished your premises, the chances are your emergency lighting systems will need to be altered accordingly.
Various tests are required daily, monthly and annually, including checks of individual luminaires and exit signs and of central battery systems.
Get in touch now for more information on emergency lighting, or to request a quote for emergency lighting testing your business.
Get in touch now for more information on emergency lighting, or to request a quote for emergency lighting testing your business.
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All electrical installations deteriorate through age and constant use. Eicrtesting.com recommend premises should be inspected and tested at regular intervals to check whether they are in a satisfactory condition for continued use. Such safety checks are commonly referred to as ‘periodic inspection and testing’ Fixed Wire or EICR Testing
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Eicrtesting.com a Birmingham based company recommend Periodic inspection and testing should be carried out only by electrically competent persons, such as NICEIC registered electricians. They will check the condition of the electrics against the UK standard for the safety of electrical installations, BS 7671 – Requirements for Electrical Installations (IET Wiring Regulations).
Eicrtesting.com based in Birmingham will send a fully qualified Testing Electrician who will establish the overall condition of all the electric installation and tell you whether it is satisfactory for continued use as well as detail any work that might need to be done. This remedial work will be graded upon importance.
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A periodic inspection is an inspection and associated testing to check whether an electrical installation is in a satisfactory condition for continued service.
More information on EICR can be found herePeriodic inspection and testing should be carried out only by electrically competent persons, such as registered electricians that EICR Testing can provide across the United Kingdom. Contact us for your free information pack.
On completion of the necessary inspection and testing, an Electrical Installation Condition Report will be issued detailing any observed damage, deterioration, defects, dangerous conditions and any non-compliances with the present-day safety standard which might give rise to danger.
If you require EICR Testing, feel free to telephone one of our EICR experts who are always on hand to help with your enquiries.
More information on costs can be found hereOur technicians are specialists at EICR electrical testing and help us carry out our EICR tests. Their electricians are vetted and qualified to a high standard. They pride themselves on providing a reliable and professional service, led by people who you can trust to enter your home or office. See the full list of other electrical work we undertake.
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