3 Jan 2017
Portable appliance testing company FTS Safety Solutuions has successfully broadened its workplace health and safety services by using the extended data collection capabilities of advanced test instrumentation. As a result, the condition of other inmportant workplace safety equiepment and facilities are now recorded alongside electrical testing for a more comprehensive overview and reporting of safety conditions.
The
extended data collection capabilities of advanced PAT technology is helping an
established electrical safety testing business to successfully broaden its service
base.
For over
ten years the core business of Milton Keynes based FTS Safety Solutions Ltd has
been the provision of portable appliance testing services for a wide range of
industrial and commercial clients.
Over the
last two years the company has grown and expanded its market by incorporating a
range of non-electrical tests into its service offering, providing clients with
a more comprehensive health and safety testing service. As well as the traditional
PAT testing work, FTS now carry out: thermal imaging surveys, emergency
lighting inspections, fire extinguisher servicing and fire alarm maintenance.
Development
Director, Andrew Mitchell, attributes the success of these additional services
to the Apollo 600 and the data it collects. Mr Mitchell says: “We have used
Seaward PAT Testing machines since we started the business 10 years ago and I
just can’t fault them. They are reliable precision pieces of equipment that we
have built our business around.”
A recent upgrade to the
data logging capabilities of the Apollo 600 has expanded the options available for the creation of special user-defined
inspection forms to record and store all the vital information associated with work
place preventative maintenance tasks, tests and inspections.
This means that users
can create ‘custom inspection’ forms for non-electrical health and safety
checks in the same way that visual inspection data is logged for appliances. To
aid faster working this has also been linked to the inclusion of bespoke lists
in dropdown menus requiring less data entry, quicker testing and consistency of
data.
The improvements in
data handling and storage means FTS test engineers are now working much more
efficiently and the company has recently secured the ISO9001 quality management
standard.
FTS Development
Director, Andrew Mitchell goes on to say: “Clients have definitely appreciated
our ability to provide a single source range of health and safety test and
inspection services. Testing the safety of electrical appliances is still the
core service for the company, but being able to record the data from other
tests and inspections with the PAT tester has significantly reduced the admin
activity involved. This has improved our productivity and shortened the time
required onsite, which in turn is a cost saving for us and minimises the
disruption for our clients. ”
The Apollo 600 forms part of a comprehensive range of portable appliance test technology, results management software and accessories available from Seaward. These include the Apollo 400 and Apollo 400 testers,
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