March 2008 – Electrical safety testing company Epsilon has just invested £250,000 in upgrading its IT infrastructure.  The investment has been made in two areas: building a new server infrastructure for databases, email and VPN (virtual private network) and introducing a new business-wide software system to help the company channel its activities from prospecting, through [...]

UK companies and organisations could be invalidating their insurance warn electrical safety specialists Epsilon Test Services.  The company has commissioned a survey of the country’s top insurance firms to understand their expectations of policy holders and, as a result, have issued an alert to the facilities world to check that policies aren’t been compromised by [...]

April 2008 – Market leading electrical safety testing experts Epsilon Test Services has been sold to workplace service providers, the PHS Group.  The deal completed on 4th April 2008 for an undisclosed sum. Award winning Epsilon specialises in portable appliance testing (PAT), periodic fixed installation testing and thermal imaging.  The company was formed in 1993 [...]

Epsilon Test Services is blowing the whistle on unscrupulous electrical contractors that mislead clients when it comes to standards of periodic testing.  The company is lobbying the NICEIC to step in and set industry standards to protect unwitting customers from being short changed. According to Epsilon, some companies within the electrical safety testing market are [...]

Legislative control in the UK has tightened significantly this year with very serious implications for duty holders.  The Corporate Manslaughter Act is now law, whilst in the world of electrical safety the British Standard (BS7671: 2008, IEE Wiring Regulations 17th Edition) has been updated to bring the UK into line with the rest of Europe, [...]

July 2008  – Electrical safety experts Epsilon Test Services are recruiting engineers against the emerging slow down driven by economic downturn.  The company reports that over 20 electricians have been appointed in the past three months and a further twelve vacancies are being recruited for. Explaining the expansion, managing director Mark Blanchfield commented, “Epsilon continues [...]

BS7671: 2008 (IEE Wiring Regulations 17th Edition) quietly came into force last year to bring the UK into line with Europe.  Six months on we review the impact these new regulations have had on electrical safety testing and discuss what facilities managers really need to know and do. The intricacies of electrical safety regulation aren’t [...]

August 2008 – Electrical safety experts Epsilon Test Services will be launching a new guide at the Total Workplace Management exhibition in October 2008.  The publication ‘A Guide to Electrical Safety in the UK’ will be available to all visitors at the exhibition and from 8 October will be free to download. According to Epsilon, [...]