Front of House Essentials

Even though it fuels our day-to-day life, electricity also poses a lot of hazards. Faulty electrical equipment can cause serious electric shocks, burns, irregular heartbeats, respiratory damage, trigger fires and explosions, and, ultimately, be fatal.

This is why it’s so important to properly maintain electrical equipment, especially appliances that are used often and moved around a lot. You can normally spot defects and potentially dangerous faults with visual checks, but sometimes the equipment also needs to undergo extra electrical testing to confirm that it’s safe, or to find hidden problems – this is where Electrical Equipment Testing, known as EET testing, comes into play.

In this course, we explain which equipment needs testing and how to determine equipment class; we discuss legal responsibilities; we explain visual inspections and how to conduct them; and we explore what EET testing is, including the different types.

This course isn’t suitable if you work in a high-risk environment like a school, a factory, or a construction site. This is the course for you if you work in a low-risk environment, like an office. In this course, we provide an accurate overview of the inspection and testing process, but you must only conduct EET tests if they’re low-risk and you’re safe, confident, and competent.