In article ,
"Rich Williams" writes:
If it costs £20 to test a kettle every year why not just chuck it away and
buy a new one - £12.00 ASDA - easier - less fuss - and cheaper - are all you
people crazy?

If you're talking about a regular domestic kettle used in a workplace,
I would suggest that should be tested every 3 months, at least until
your record keeping can show that a longer period would be satisfactory.
It's not really an appropriate appliance for the workplace, and it would
be much better to provide a wall-mounted kettle for such an environment
which is designed for a much higher workload, depending on the number of
people using it, and this would need far less frequent testing.

The buying new and replacing often strategy is a viable one in many
cases. Some items of IT equipment have a recommended test period of
every 4 years, and you could decide you will dispose of them at 4
years old anyway since they will be verging on obsolete rather than
test them. This is still something to record in your records though,
so you can justify why you are not PAT testing them, and it's not
just down to negligence.

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Andrew Gabriel