Electrical safety checklist

A visual and test checklist for a home or small premises: the switchboard, safety switches and how many circuits they protect, smoke alarms, power points and leads.

It is not an electrical safety certificate or an installation condition report (such as an EICR or a certificate of compliance); those are issued by a licensed electrician on the form your regulator requires.

The checks

• Switchboard condition and labelling: pass, advisory, fail or not applicable
• Safety switches (RCDs) trip on test: pass, advisory, fail or not applicable
• Circuits protected by a safety switch: All circuits, Some circuits, None
• Smoke alarms present and working: pass, advisory, fail or not applicable
• Power points and switches undamaged: pass, advisory, fail or not applicable
• No damaged cords or overloaded adaptors seen: pass, advisory, fail or not applicable
• Notes for the customer
• Checked by: the technician’s name

Use it in Primemgr

Turn on Forms in Settings → Modules, choose Create a form and start from “Electrical safety checklist”. Change any check to suit how you work, then publish it. Fill it in from the job; anything marked as a finding can be turned into a quote in one click, with the reading written on the line.

Use it on paper

The list above works as a printed checklist as well. Keep the reading, not just a tick, wherever there is a limit: the number is what the customer can check.