Rental providers in Victoria, Australia must now ensure that each of their premises have had electrical safety checks on all the electrical installations and fittings and ensure these are checked every two years by a licensed electrician. This will particularly affect rental providers who have entered into a new leasing agreement on or after 29th March 2021 as they will need to undertake electrical safety checks sooner rather than later.
What's more, all safety checks must be conducted accordance with section 4 of AS/NZS 3019 “Electrical installations—Periodic verification” and records must be kept of these checks.
Megger has got the perfect tool for electricians to provide all the tests needed with the MFT1835 multifunction tester. This advanced MFT gives you Type B RCD testing, 3-pole earth electrode testing with attached rod technique and stakeless testing,
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