Encourage people to dispose of items that are faulty or obsolete.
Give items away if they are still OK, sell or raffle them off!
Sites often have legacy equipment hanging around that is not in use.
That box of spare cords could add up to quite a few dollars in testing fees.
Do you really need that radio from 1980?
Can you cull any of those gimicky kitchen appliances?
Do you still have legacy power tools, from before everyone went to batteries?
Community organisations are often the worst for this as no one has “ownership” to decide what to do with old equipment. Thus all can add to the collection but no one can cull the collection.
If you need to have a collection of old equipment on site, consider tagging it “Out Of Service” and place in a secure location. This will remove it from the testing regime.
Avoid duplicates
Store similar items in a common location, this may prevent dual purchasing leads etc because some have been stored in an odd place and can’t be found easily.
Damaged and faulty equipment
Did you know that over 90% of fails are detected visually?
Save yourself the cost of a fail tag, inspect and repair or remove faulty and damaged equipment.
Inspect for:
Cracked casing
Faulty plug/missing ring grip
Melted or burn marks
Cuts in cables
Hard wiring
Consider hardwiring as an option. Some equipment can be hardwired, this removes it from scope of Test & Tag.
