Test & Tag Services in Melbourne (AS/NZS 3760)

Test and tag is the inspection and electrical testing of plug-in equipment: leads, power boards, tools, kitchen appliances, gym equipment, anything with a plug that people use at work. Under Victorian OHS duties an employer or building operator must be able to show that electrical equipment is safe to use, and AS/NZS 3760 is the recognised method of showing it.

The obligation lands in more places than people expect. An office tenancy, a cafe in a shopping centre, a gym in an apartment tower and the equipment in a building manager's store room all carry it. If your building or business has never held a testing register, that gap is invisible right up until an incident or an insurer asks for it.

AS/NZS 3760 does not prescribe one interval for everything. A lead on a construction site, an appliance in a commercial kitchen and a monitor in an office all sit in different environment classes with different retest intervals. Testing everything annually is the common default, and it is frequently wrong in both directions: over-testing benign equipment and under-testing hostile-environment equipment.

We classify the environment first, then build the schedule. Each item gets a durable tag with its test date and next due date, and the register keeps the whole population visible, including the items that failed and were removed.

The tag on the appliance is the smallest part of the job. What protects you in an audit is the register: what was tested, what passed, what failed and was withdrawn, and when the next cycle is due. Ours is maintained per site and per tenancy, and it slots into the same reporting stack as our RCD testing and Essential Safety Measures records, so a building's whole compliance position lives in one place.

Most test and tag providers do only test and tag, which leaves you running separate contractors and separate calendars for appliance testing, RCD trip tests, exit and emergency lighting and switchboard inspection. We are a commercial electrical contractor first, so all of it lands in one scheduled visit cycle with one report pack, and anything a test finds can be repaired by the same team rather than referred on.

We run testing across single tenancies, whole centres and multi-site portfolios. At a neighbourhood shopping centre in Epping that means mandatory testing across roughly 14 tenancies in one coordinated program; for a facilities manager it means one schedule and one register across every property on the books. If you manage more than one site, start with our facilities management electrical services.