Compliance services
- RCD and safety switch testing to AS/NZS 3760, push-button and trip-time tested, results recorded per device.
- Emergency and exit lighting testing to AS 2293, 6-monthly discharge tests and annual inspections, logged in the site's register.
- Test and tag to AS/NZS 3760 for everything that plugs in, with an asset register you keep and failures repaired rather than tagged out.
- Switchboard installation, upgrades and verification, including commissioning and labelling on new boards.
- Certificates of compliance on every notifiable electrical installation we complete, lodged as SA requires.
- Thermal imaging of switchboards and connections as part of a maintenance inspection.
- Compliance reporting in a format your safety officer, insurer, landlord or auditor can file without rewriting it.
Who has to comply, and with what
Any business with employees has a duty under work health and safety law to keep electrical equipment and installations safe, and the practical way to show that is testing to the relevant standard and keeping the records. Schools have the added weight of a duty of care to students. Medical and dental practices have body-protected areas under AS/NZS 3003 with their own testing regime. Landlords of commercial premises usually carry emergency lighting obligations under the lease. We work in all of these and know which schedule applies to which site; see schools and health and medical.
What a compliance visit looks like
An electrician arrives with the testers and the site's register, or creates one if there isn't one. Every RCD gets tested and recorded. Every emergency and exit light gets discharged and checked. The boards get a visual and, if it's on the schedule, a thermal inspection. Anything that fails gets flagged with a recommendation and a price, and the report lands with you the same week. Then the next visit goes in the calendar, because compliance is a cycle, not an event.
Switchboards
Old switchboards are the most common compliance failure we see in Adelaide's post-war housing and older commercial stock: ceramic fuses, no RCD protection, and sometimes asbestos backing panels. Our switchboard upgrade page explains what an upgrade involves, what it typically costs and when it's mandatory rather than optional.