What is Required to Test and Tag Equipment?

When it comes to the task of doing a test and tag on any electrical equipment that you may be using in your workplace, you are not really going to require any special electrical qualifications, as the process of doing a test and tag on any type of portable electrical equipment is not going to be considered a ‘prescribed’ activity.  With that being said, you are going to require a few things in order to be able to test your own appliances says Electrical Testing Services.  Those requirements include:

• Competency training and assessment:  this means that you will need to have some type of training and assessment under your belt before you are able to get started with a test and tag on any type of electrical appliances, not just a simple ‘product training’ from the person who sold you the testing equipment.
• Auditable and accountable records:  this is required for every electrical appliance that you did a test and tag on.
• The right testing equipment that any ‘Competent Person’ is able to use:  the most popular testing equipment that has been designed for a ‘Competent Person’ to use is going to be the PAT Testers.
• Some type of testing system:  this will need to pass any auditing that may be done by the WorkCover/OSH purposes.
• Ongoing back up and support

While it is no big secret that every single workplace is going to be a unique one, it also means that each testing package is going to need to be completely different as well.  With that being said, when you get a training package and testing equipment for your particular workplace, it is going to need to be suited to best fit what your company’s individual requirements are.

While there is no previous knowledge of the electrical system is going to be required in order to participate in any type of training course for test and tag, you should be sure that you get an individual assessment completed as soon as you have gone through all of your training, and before you actually go out and try to complete a test and tag in the workplace.

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Actors with performance anxiety say their fear is about forgetting their lines. Again, they’re really afraid of looking like a fool because…. they forgot their lines. According to veteran keynote speaker Dan Smith of KeynoteSpeakers.info, “When we do not learn self-esteem at a young age and seek outside validation from others, the thought of failing in a public setting is devastating to most people. This is why it is important to learn to overcome this early on during your school years.”

A guaranteed way to conquer public speaking fears

The quickest and most effective way to conquer any fear is to examine it. Really look at it so that you understand what makes you afraid and then face these simple facts about all unhelpful fears.

1. They’re only feelings

2. Those feelings were created by you. By your thoughts, your memories. And…

3. Your thoughts, hence your feelings, are under your control.

Let’s see how.

Think about your next public presentation. You immediately feel that all-too-familiar worry. Just the thought, the memory of your previous event is enough. Standing in your own lounge room, without an audience and you can generate all those negative thoughts. Your mouth goes dry, you can even feel quite queasy. Tune in to the different ways that you feel the anxiety and stress. Now do this – please.

· Write each separate fear symptom on a list.

· Read it aloud.

· Say this: “I produced those fears just by remembering the last time I spoke, or just by thinking about how afraid I’ll be. I’m now going to replace those thoughts with empowering ones.”

Bravo. You’ve just experienced the first step out of the fear. You’ve realized that those fear-filled symptoms have been triggered by you, by your thoughts, your memories.

Now you’ll replace your negative thoughts with alternative reactions. See your brain as similar to a computer. Your program needs to be replaced with one minus the disabling fears. Although our human brain is far more complex than any computer, the part of the human brain in which emotions are stored is the least sophisticated.

Many people write about the ‘act as if ‘ approach to overcoming fear generally and performance anxiety in particular. They don’t explain that to use that strategy effectively you must rehearse ‘acting as if’ you’re calm. Only by rehearsing or practicing can you replace your fear-filled program with a one guaranteed to have you feeling calm and confident.

Your rehearsals of confident public speaking are, in fact, the writing of your brain’s new calm program. Through the repetitive nature of this action, you will be able to train yourself to be a confident and successful public speaker.

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