Health & Safety
A new approach to ensure the safety of electrical equipment
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new concept test instrumentation enables those responsible for ensuring the electrical safety of appliances used in schools, colleges, universities and other education centres to meet their electrical safety obligations in a safe, simple and effective manner – and in line with the latest official guidance. Seaward’s latest generation Apollo portable appliance testers establish a new approach to electrical safety testing. The Apollo 500 and Apollo 600 are designed to comply with the latest best practice advice on maintaining a risk based approach to maintaining workplace safety. Leading the new range is the Apollo 600, a multi-purpose PAT tester with an on board digital camera to capture images for inclusion in risk and inspection records; when used with PATGuard 3 software it provides unrivalled results management including photographs for visual evidence. The Apollo 500 has the same range
of PAT tests as the Apollo 600, but does not include a camera, and is designed for dedicated plug and play electrical testing, both testers incorporate all of the safety
tests recommended by the latest IET Code of Practice, including for permanently connected and 3 phase electrical equipment.
The Apollo series testers include all of the electrical safety tests required by the IET Code of Practice including, earth continuity, insulation resistance at 250V or 500V, protective conductor current, touch
current, IEC lead polarity and portable RCD trip time, without the risk of tripping the installation RCD. In addition to testing plug in appliances, the Apollo is fully equipped to test permanently connected and 3 phase electrical equipment as required by the new Code of Practice. The new Apollo testers can be used with battery or mains power and include a built-in risk assessment tool and suggested re-test interval
calculator and for easy results storage, Bluetooth and USB connections are included as well as the ability to transfer data remotely using a mobile phone or tablet. A range of compatible accessory bundles including printers, labels, barcode scanners and PATGuard 3 software are also available. Full details of the Seaward PAT range for educations centres is available at
www.seaward.co.uk/userfiles/ pat-testing-in-schools.php Tel. (0191) 586 3511 Email:
sales@seaward.co.uk
Centriforce Expands Choice in Utility Protection Signs & Markers
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entriforce, a leading international supplier of utility protection products, is expanding its
portfolio after agreeing a strategic UK distributorship with the quality German manufacturer, Franken Plastik. Centriforce is now able to provide utility providers and contractors with a wide choice of customisable signs for safety, identification and warning, meeting the highest standards for quality and durability. Identification signage systems available from Centriforce include injection-moulded, screen-printed and laser-engraved signs for a variety of uses to identify the location of utilities or warn of hazards. Signs can be designed and moulded to fit any profile and are customisable to meet individual requirements, including company or authority logos. Self-adhesive signs and labels are also available in any design to meet specific requirements, for both indoor and outdoor use.
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Centriforce will also be handling the range of LURAN-S snap fit signs, manufactured to BS3251, made from durable, non-fade plastic which provides an economic and versatile system to display information, for example on fire hydrants, water valves, sewers and street lighting columns. A range of LURAN-S railway datum gauges is also available for marking rail track level or positioning. Simon Carroll, Managing Director of Centriforce, commented: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with one of Europe’s highest quality plastics manufacturers. Centriforce is a plastics specialist as well as an established leader in the utility protection market, so adding signs and markers is a logical extension to our product offering. It will give our UK customers additional choice in sourcing high-quality, durable, plastic signage and markers.” Centriforce also recently introduced underground warning tape to its utility
protection range, a purpose-designed printed marker tape used by utility contractors to provide the regulation “identification layer” which is installed above service lines to warn any future excavators of the presence of buried utilities. Centriforce is fully accredited to ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001. For further information or to order any of Centriforce’s utility protection products visit
www.centriforce.com, call customer service on 0151 207 8109 or email to
sales@centriforce.co.uk.
Building & Facilities Management – May 2015
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