This service accompanies a smoke alarm service. Electrocution is a major life safety risk – especially for rental property owners and their insurance. Safety switches must not only trip but trip in time to save a life – a fraction of a second! The Electrical Safety Office recommends push-button tests of all safety switches every three months – which you can do yourself, but once a year get them time-tested properly. The Code of Practice requires time-testing, as does AS 3760-2010.

Rental Properties: Rental property owners are considered a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) under the Work Health & Safety Act 2011. Time and date stamped evidence of annual time-testing of safety switches is mandatory to ensure duty-of-care for a safe home. If you are getting a report that says ‘sighted’ or ‘tested’ you are at risk with your insurance coverage.

Buying a property: If you buy a property without a safety switch you must install a safety switch for the power circuits within three months of a property transfer. This applies to any transfer of domestic properties.

Selling a property: Establish a safety switch is installed for power circuits, and that it tests within the required trip-time period. This must be declared on the standard sales contract and Form 24 Property Transfer.

Our Safety Switch inspections include:

• A full report with picture of the switchboard, supplied on completion. The report is time & date stamped with recorded measurements of time-to-trip, electrical workers name and licence and last calibration date of the testing device;
• Ensure property is compliant with AS3760:2010, Electrical Code of Practice & the WHSA 2011;
• Mechanical tests of Safety switches supplying lighting circuits and other non-power outlet circuits;
• Faulty safety switches able to be changed out immediately if they fail to test – no other trades required.