The electrical maintenance and installation work can be potentially dangerous, that’s why businesses need to know that the technician working on their premises completed their job according to Australian/ New Zealand Standards. Electricians working in Australia must provide the report with detailed complying Australian Standards after completing their electrical job.
The Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) is the in-depth inspection of the electrical installation and the electrical system, including switchgear, protective devices, and equipment.
What Care Labs do?
Care Labs provide electrical installation condition report after ensuring all the fix wire system and the electrical system operates well without any disturbance. Technicians offered by Care Labs are well qualified and focused on their work.
Care Labs believes in delivering quality work to work on and ensure every piece of equipment falls under the Australian Standards AS/NZS 3000-2018.
What is EICR?
In day-to-day life, we are using electricity for our comfortability. Electricity has both advantages and disadvantages. An installed electrical system is using as the medium for electric supply. So, EICR is the total in-depth inspection of the electrical installation system (electric supply medium) of the property.
This assessment gives you the guarantee of your safety as well as your employees. At last, the report you receive will mention all the small detail about electrical fix wire and components.
Why should you take the electrical installation condition report?
The purpose of performing an EICR is to detecting issues and ensuring there are no insulation problems and other fixed wire issues in the electrical system.
To protect you, your family, your employees, and those qualified for electrical work there is a strict electrical safety code of practice in place. So, it is important to hire a well-qualified and licensed electrician to work on, it’s equally important to ask for an electrical installation condition report.
The reason behind the electrical installation condition report:
- If not installed properly, electricity is the most dangerous thing which we might be near-daily, it is both devastating and hazardous.
- Faulty electrical work causes fire hazards, and place you and your employees at risk of severe injury or sometimes death.
- If it’s not complying with Australian Standards AS/NZS 3000, you might be fall under the act or law and finned a big amount.
Things Covered in an EICR:
Care Labs performs EICR, starting with Visual inspection, followed by testing and inspection. Duration of performing an EICR depends on your industrial plant and building facilities.
After completing the Electrical installation inspection, we provide you digital report, which has detail mentioned about each action made by our technician to detect your issues with time intervals.
- Identification of any outdated wiring in the property.
- Check if their unprotected or mislead insulation in the electrical systems.
- Detect the signs of electrical potential hazards.
- Check each component follows the local standards and regulations.
- Test the protective switches.
- Power box should be updated with current regulations.
- A good confirmation about grounding systems.
- Validation of proper surge protection.
- Verification of each piece of equipment and cables.
When you Need an Electrical Installation Condition Report?
There are couples of principles you can follow to know whether you should take EICR or not.
- Several durations you need to take EICR when you buy a new building or facilities, it’s important to take EICR.
- If your building is already too old and didn’t take inspection frequently, you should take EICR.
- Having EICR report is mandatory when you renovate your premise or building, it may damage the electrical wiring.
- If you live in an area where floods and storms strike regularly, you need to focus on calling an electrician.
- When you add new machinery or non-linear load to the electrical installation, it is important to verify that fixed wire systems operate well.
- Not complying with Australian standards AS/NZS 3000, you should contact an electrician.
Standards and Regulations:
AS/NZS 3000 is also known as Australia/New Zealand wiring rules. It recommends electrical equipment and components need to fully checked with safety standards regulations before place for use. Total guidelines and standards need to adhere for inspecting and testing services.
Care Labs provide an Electrical installation condition report to ensure the safety of your employee as well as your expensive equipment. Care Labs determines every installation equipment adhere to Australian Standard AS/NZS 3000.
Care Labs offer electrical switchgear risk services in all the major cities of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, and Western Australia.
Contact an arrangement with our licensed electrician and get more knowledge about our Electrical installation condition report services.
