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Posted By Dave Joyce
If purchasing, from a used furniture dealer, used office furniture, with enclosed electrics fitted with a plug, would you expect them to be PATested on delivery or do you think that it is the purchasers responsibility.
If the desks were provided with the plug cut off would that make a difference?
Any thoughts will be appreciated
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Posted By Stuart Nagle
Dave.
PAT testing on electrics installed is for the purchaser/user of the equipment.
The equipment should be sold (even if second-hand) in compliance with the PUWER.
Regards...
Stuart
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Posted By Rob Malcolm
Could a previous owner be trusted to have done it correctly and to a standard that you would call 'suitable & sufficient'.
It may get damaged on transit.
Introduce a purchasing policy that would require all items to be PAT tested before distribution.
Rob
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Posted By Stephen Clark
Whilst there is supplier responsibility and all goods should be fit for purpose, it is previously owned and i suggest like the previous contributors that you err on the side of caution and get them tested. If getting them tested would be cost prohibitive due to the fact that you have PAT done at a different time of year, remove the plug, label the electrical parts "U/S unless tested before use" and then get them done when you get the rest of your equipment tested.
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