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TRANSPORTABLE BUILDING PERIODIC INSPECTION REPORT

Issued in accordance with British Standard 7671ÐRequirements for Electrical Installations by an Approved Contractor enrolled with NICEIC, Warwick House, Houghton Hall Park, Houghton Regis, Dunstable LU5 5ZX.

Original (To the person ordering the work)

D. PURPOSE OF THE REPORT

Purpose for which this report is required:

(see note below)

E. EXTENT OF INSTALLATION AND LIMITATIONS OF INSPECTION A D TESTI G

à(see note below)

F. PARTICULARS OF THE APPROVED CONTRACTOR

Trading

Title:

Address:

G. DE LARAT ON

I/We, being the person(s) responsible for the inspection and testing of the electrical installation (as indicated by my/our signatures below), particulars of which are described above (see B and ), having exercised reasonable skill and care when carrying out the inspection and testing, hereby declare that the information in this report, including the observations (see H) and the attached schedules (see M,N, O and P), provides an accurate assessment of the condition of the electrical installation taking into account the stated extent of the installation and the limitations of the inspection and testing (see E).

INSPECTION, TESTING AND ASSESSMENT BY:

Signature:

Name:

(CAPITALS)

Position:

✤(Insert Ôa satisfactoryÕ or Ôan unsatisfactoryÕ, as appropriate)

REPORT REVIEWED AND CONFIRMED BY: * (see note below)

Signature:

Name:

(CAPITALS)

(Registered Qualified Supervisor for the Approved Contractor at F)

This Transportable Building Periodic Inspection Report must be used only for reporting on the condition of an existing installation.

àThe inspection and testing have been carried out in accordance with BS 7671 as amended. Cables concealed within trunking and conduits, or cables and conduits concealed under floors, and generally within the fabric of the transportable building, have not been visually inspected.

* This Transportable Building Periodic Inspection Report should be reviewed and confirmed by the registered Qualified Supervisor of the Approved Contractor responsible for issuing it.

This form is based on the model Periodic Inspection Report shown in Appendix 6 of BS 7671: 2001.

Published by NICEIC Group Limited © Copyright The Electrical Safety Council (Jan 2008).

The purpose of this periodic inspection report is to identify, so far as is reasonably practicable, whether an electrical installation in a transportable building is in a satisfactory condition for continued service. This report provides an assessment of the condition of the transportable building identified overleaf at the time it was inspected, taking into account the stated extent of the installation and the limitations of the inspection and testing.

The report has been issued in accordance with the national standard for the safety of electrical installations, British Standard 7671 (as amended) - Requirements for Electrical Installations.

Where, as will often be the case, the installation incorporates a residual current device (RCD), there should be a notice at or near the consumer unit stating that the device should be tested at quarterly intervals. For safety reasons, it is important that this test is carried out regularly.

Also for safety reasons, the electrical installation will need to be re-inspected and tested at appropriate intervals by a competent person. The recommended time interval to the next inspection is stated on page 2 in Section J (Next Inspection), which is conditional upon remedial work being carried out for all the items (in Section H) which attracted a Recommendation Code 1 (requires urgent attention) and Code 2 (requires improvement) are remedied without delay and as soon as possible respectively. NICEI * recommends that you engage the services of an Approved Contractor for this purpose. There should also be a notice at or near the consumer unit indicating when the inspection of the installation is next due.

It is the responsibility of the competent person connecting the electrical supply to the unit to carry out tests to ensure the values of earth fault loop impedance, maximum prospective fault current at the origin, polarity and RCD tests conform to the requirements of BS 7671.

This report consists of at least three numbered pages. The report is invalid if any of the pages are missing. The report has a printed seven-digit serial number which is traceable to the Approved Contractor to which it was supplied by NICEIC.

This report is intended to be issued only for the purpose of reporting on the condition of an existing electrical installation. The report should identify, so far as is reasonably practicable, and having regard to the extent and limitations recorded in Section E, any damage, deterioration, defects, dangerous conditions and any non-compliances with the requirements of the national standard for the safety of the electrical installation which may give rise to danger. It should be noted that the greater the limitations applying to a report, the less its value.

This report should not have been issued to certify that a new installation, or an alteration or addition to an existing installation complies with the national safety standard. A Transportable Building Electrical Installation CertiÞcate should have been issued for such work.

You should have received the report marked ÔOriginalÕ and the NICEIC Approved Contractor should have retained the report marked ÔDuplicateÕ.

If you were the person ordering the work, but not the owner of the transportable building, you should pass this report, or a full copy of it including these notes, immediately to that person.

The ‘Original’ report should be kept in a safe place and shown to any person inspecting or undertaking work on the electrical installation in the future.

Section E addresses the extent of the installation inspected and tested and the agreed limitations, if any, on the inspection and testing. Information given here should fully identify the scope of the inspection and testing and of the report. The Approved Contractor should have agreed all such aspects with the person ordering the work and other interested parties before the inspection and testing was carried out.

Section H includes, at the top, two small unshaded data-entry boxes, one of which should be completed with a Ô✓Õ to indicate that Ôthere are no items adversely affecting electrical safetyÔ or Ôthe following observations and recommendations are madeÕ. Where observations and recommendations have been made, these should have been itemised in the column provided and each should be attributed with a Recommendation Code 1, 2, 3 or 4.

See the reverse of page 2 of this report for guidance on the Recommendation Codes.

A declaration of the overall condition of the installation should have been given by the inspector in Section G of the report. The declaration should reßect that given in Section I which summarises the observations and recommendations made in Section H. A list of observations and recommendations for urgent remedial work and corrective action(s) necessary to maintain the installation in safe working order should have been given in Section H, where appropriate.

All applicable boxes on page 3 should have been completed either by the insertion of the relevant details or by having one of the following codes entered, which have the following meanings:

Ô✓Õ Ô✗Õ

ÔN/AÕ ÔLIMÕ