Thread: Electrical Test and Tag

Hi,
The Uni went this direction about 12 years ago.
Rediculous.
Most lab gear never moved from its position on the bench.
Big fuss! Admin wanted a room/device register. Some gear moved rooms, some items like desktop computers got replaced but still used the old cable running back behind a desk.
So I knocked up a database of everything, printed out a few reports listing by rooms, due now, due soon and over due. All this inserted into a big ring binder and sent to Admin.
Never heard a peep from them on the subject ever again.
Cheers

Originally Posted by Homestar

Yep, all probably fine for most things and I agree most of it is a bit of a ****, but as Weeds noted now for a mine site, or large construction site with Union involvement and they'd check this sort of thing - During the induction they would require any tickets, VOC's, etc for everything. Test and tag tickets are checked to for those conducting their own at times, so well worth asking the question and covering off the small items when going to a job like this.

We also log every single elect test done in the company - including who did it. We have over 100,000 bits of electrical equipment that need to stay in test in our company which is no mean feat - keeping track of it is a whole other problem, but we do it as we are an ISO certified company so these things get audited twice a year to ensure we stay compliant.

Whatever you think of the process, it keeps people employed that's for sure...

Like I said I'm not against it on commercial sites not in the slightest, tools get shared from goon to goon and most people don't care about company tools. And I think all metal body tools should definitely be tested and tagged for obvious reasons. If I had employees which used my company tools I probably would have them checked every 3months for their safety.
Hey I'd do the course if I could afford the machine. If I had 100,000 items like the company you work for I'd have a dedicated test and tagger employed full time.

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
The Uni went this direction about 12 years ago.
Rediculous.
Most lab gear never moved from its position on the bench.
Big fuss! Admin wanted a room/device register. Some gear moved rooms, some items like desktop computers got replaced but still used the old cable running back behind a desk.
So I knocked up a database of everything, printed out a few reports listing by rooms, due now, due soon and over due. All this inserted into a big ring binder and sent to Admin.
Never heard a peep from them on the subject ever again.
Cheers

Yes, office equipment, etc is pretty dumb. We still do all of our fixed appliances once a year though. Everything we use on site is monthly.

Originally Posted by LRJim

Like I said I'm not against it on commercial sites not in the slightest, tools get shared from goon to goon and most people don't care about company tools. And I think all metal body tools should definitely be tested and tagged for obvious reasons. If I had employees which used my company tools I probably would have them checked every 3months for their safety.
Hey I'd do the course if I could afford the machine. If I had 100,000 items like the company you work for I'd have a dedicated test and tagger employed full time.

We have competent technicians at every one of our 160 sites which looks after what is in their local area. Once on site it becomes the customers issue - we only need to do it when running up the equipment ready for hire.

Begs the question, what about Electric Car charge cables . A whole new workforce will be needed for them.

My VASS engineer wanted me to get my Charger & Charge cable Test & Tagged before signing off on the Blue Plate, The tags have expired I suppose that makes my Landy unroadworthy ??

Originally Posted by LRJim

AFAIK you need to buy some machine which cost like 10k that's last I heard a few years ago. You don't need to be a sparky just a "tool tester" lol

Machine is from about $300 and up. Have never heard of one costing $10k.
You need to be licensed, and have either a test tag license number, or be a licensed electrician, you can't just fill it in and be done with it.

Originally Posted by Vern

Machine is from about $300 and up. Have never heard of one costing $10k.
You need to be licensed, and have either a test tag license number, or be a licensed electrician, you can't just fill it in and be done with it.

Just looking on Google shopping cheapest is 600 most expensive is like 6k withought looking to hard. Last I looked was maybe 6 years ago and it was way up there. Hmm maybe it's worth doing the course after all, getting over building yuppies houses lol

Originally Posted by goingbush

Begs the question, what about Electric Car charge cables . A whole new workforce will be needed for them.

My VASS engineer wanted me to get my Charger & Charge cable Test & Tagged before signing off on the Blue Plate, The tags have expired I suppose that makes my Landy unroadworthy ??

No you can drive it, just not charge it hahaha.