Keep Your Business Compliant With Health & Safety Regulations

1.1 Scope

This Standard specifies procedures for safety inspection and testing of low voltage single phase and polyphase electrical equipment, connected to the electrical supply by a flexible cord or connecting device, and that:

> Is new equipment placed into services for the first time;

> Is already in service;

> Has been serviced or repaired;

> Is returning to service from a second-hand sale; or

> Is available for hire.

​

This standard also specifies procedures for the safety inspection and testing of:

> In Australia, residual current devices (RCDs) installed in the electrical installation

> Portable inverters that generate or produce low voltage.

​

1.1.1

The standard applies only to equipment in-service at a place of work or public place, accommodation place, or offered for hire.

​

1.1.2

This Standard does not apply to:

1. electrical equipment installed at a height of 2.5 m or greater above the ground, floor or platform, where there is not a reasonable chance of a person touching the equipment and, at the same time, coming into contact with earth or any conducting medium which may be in electrical contact with earth or through which a circuit may be completed to earth.

2. The standard also does not apply to equipment which may need to be dismantled to perform the inspection and tests specified in this standard.

3. Requirements for functional checks

4. RCDs used in the supply to medical equipment with in scoop of AS/NZS 3003 or NZS 6115

5. Fixed equipment (except, in Australia, RCDs) or stationary equipment connected to wiring that forms part of electrical installation and hence falls within the scope of AS/NZS 3000

6. Medical electrical equipment, nor any equipment connected to medical electrical equipment in a medical electrical system, as defined in AS/NZS 3551

7. Portable generators, within the scope of AS/NZS 3010

8. In New Zealand, demonstration stock in retail or wholesale outlets

9. In Australia, demonstration stock in retail or wholesale outlets, however the responsible person should regularly conduct a visual inspection