PAT Testing Certificate and Record Keeping

PAT Testing Certificates, Records & Results

There is no law which requires detailed records to be kept, although some system of recording what you have tested, and when, is certainly a good idea. Our advice is, as ever, to keep it simple! In many cases, depending on your business, an excercise book with hand written records is perfectly acceptable!

Many people use a simple Microsoft Excel Spreadheet to keep their PAT Testing Records - a sample you can use is here: PAT Testing Records Spreadsheet

You are welcome to download this spreadsheet and use it as you see fit. Obviously, you need to enter the data manually into the spreadsheet - you could record the results on paper as you go round doing the testing and then type them in later, or you could carry a laptop around with you, and enter the results as you go. You can run Excel on a small laptop, tablet (iPad etc) or even on a mobile phone - and then email the results back to the office when you've finished.

You may also prefer to use these documents, which are in Microsoft Word format:

• PAT Equipment Register
• PAT Faulty Equipment Register
• PAT Repaired Equipment Register

There's also a PAT Testing Certificate Template - which is useful if you want to give your customer a single page to certify that they've had their equipment PAT Tested. If you're lucky, your customer will display this in reception, next to the Fire Alarm certificate and their insurance certificates - that way you get some free advertising!

If you want to buy a 'downloading pat tester' you may prefer to buy the software that comes with it, although there is another software programme called 'SIMPLYPATS' which will work with most makes of PAT Testers. Click here for a free trial demo version of SimplyPATs

If you have a Seaward PAT Tester, then you can use their PATGuard Software - click here for a free trial demo of PATGuard

All of the commercial software packages will print out reports and certificates, and some will print our detailed inventories of your equipment.

If you come on one of our PAT testing courses, we will give you some sample forms / certificates etc you can use to record your pat test data.