What happens during a gas and electrical safety check
What a licensed electrician and a licensed gasfitter test, what gets reported, and how a failed component is handled.
The electrical safety check
The electrician works from the switchboard outwards. The board is inspected for damage, overheating and labelling; safety switches are confirmed on every circuit and trip-tested with the times recorded; socket outlets, light fittings and switches are tested.
The recorded trip time matters more than the pass. A safety switch tripping at the edge of its tolerance today will fail before the next visit, and knowing that two years early is the difference between a planned replacement and an emergency call-out.
The gas safety check
Every fixed gas appliance is tested, along with the installation behind it. A leak and negative pressure test confirms the pipework holds, carbon monoxide spillage testing is done where the appliance type requires it, and ventilation and flueing are checked.
A carbon monoxide risk found on a gas safety check is not a line on a report for next week. An unsafe appliance is isolated on the spot and the agency is told the same day.
When something fails
A failed component does not fail the visit. It is a finding, recorded against the job with photographs, reported to the agency and quoted separately as remedial work. The check itself is complete and the due date advances, while the repair is tracked as its own job.
A check is never recorded as passed because a repair was booked. The record says what was found.