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leads and appliances on a regular basis it will lead to reduce risk in electrical injuries and
death. Failure to ensure your electrical equipment is safe at all times can lead to injury or
worse, death to anyone within the workplace whether it be yourself, your employees or your
clients.
Some techniques that can be undertaken to test electrical equipment is as follows:
The batteries of all appliances should be regularly checked so as to ensure no loss of electrical
supply is there.
To ensure no breakage of electrical cables is there.
Providing proper electrical earthing in all sockets.
Providing proper insulating materials as the base of all appliances so as to minimise the risk
of electrical shocks.
Further to provide safety of all humans, all electrical appliances should be properly tested
before use. Along with electrical tagging and electrical testing, all the safety measures should
also be kept in mind before using electricity. For example, one should never use electrical
appliance bare footed or with wet hands. Appliance testing should be done properly so as to
ensure personal safety.
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Benefits of test and tag
TEST and Tag is a way of minimising electrical risks to people in a workplace.