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What is the output document after electrical installation inspection?
After inspection, an Inspection Report is issued with an assessment of the conformity of the building and installations with reference documents: laws, regulations and standards.…
Who can inspect electrical installations?
Electrical installations may be inspected by a conformity assessment body (CAB) – an inspection body. The inspection body demonstrates its credibility by an accreditation…
Types of inspection: initial, periodic and inspection after repair and modification
Initial inspection is performed before the building and installations are put into operation and represents an important procedure that is a condition for obtaining an occupancy…
What should be prepared before the inspection body arrives?
Before inspection, it is necessary to complete an inspection request containing the following essential elements:
Incorrect inspection requests and applicable documents
In inspection requests, users themselves often define procedures incorrectly, describing what they think should be tested while overlooking the fact that inspection is carried…
What measurements are performed during electrical installation inspection?
There is no single universal list. Inspection is planned according to the subject of inspection and applicable requirements. Therefore, the necessary checks and measurements are…
Inspection of installations in medical locations
The subject of inspection depends on the systems actually installed in the building. Specific features of inspection at these locations include:
Inspection of hotel electrical installations
The subject of inspection depends on the systems actually installed in the building. Hotels often contain several different systems with specific inspection methods: swimming…
Inspection of swimming-pool electrical installations
Electrical installations of swimming pools must meet additional safety criteria prescribed by the standard for special locations SRPS HD 60364-7-702. Compliance with safety…
Inspection of sauna electrical installations
Electrical installations in saunas must be designed and installed so as to meet additional safety criteria in accordance with the standard for special locations SRPS HD…
Inspection of solar power plants – photovoltaic power supply systems
Inspection concerns the grid-side part of the solar-photovoltaic power supply system, namely protection against electric shock and overvoltage from the grid connection to the…
Inspection of factory electrical installations
Factories often include substations, photovoltaic solar power plants, safety power supply systems, gas and other boiler rooms, chargers for electric vehicles and forklifts,…
Inspection of electrical installations for electric vehicle chargers
Where it applies This area is relevant to residential and commercial buildings, hotels, garages and other locations with electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Reference…
Inspection of a 10/0.4 kV substation
Within its valid scope of accreditation, ELECTROLAB performs inspection of earthing systems of power installations with nominal voltage above 1,000 V according to SRPS EN…
Inspection of antistatic floor and wall coverings
This area is relevant to medical facilities, telecommunications facilities, server rooms, data centres, commercial buildings and other locations where measures for protection…
Inspection of public buildings
Electrical installations in public buildings must meet additional safety criteria defined by SRPS HD 60364-7-718 – Communal facilities and workplaces. In addition, public…
Safety power supply systems – UPS, diesel generator and backup mains supply
These inspections are relevant to buildings with safety ventilation systems for evacuation routes, smoke extraction systems, sprinkler fire-extinguishing systems, booster systems…
Lightning protection system inspection – what is checked?
Inspection includes examination and checks of systems for protection against atmospheric discharges and static charge induced by atmospheric phenomena. It is very important to…
Safety lighting inspection (colloquially “anti-panic lighting”)
Safety lighting is a special type of lighting implemented with luminaires that have autonomous power supply and which, as a rule, switch on when the mains supply fails. In our…
Escape route lighting
This area is relevant to buildings occupied by people who must be provided with safe evacuation. In addition to lighting the route itself, safety lighting is required for…
Safety lighting for high-risk task areas
This area is very important for buildings with hazardous workplaces where, after a mains power failure, minimum lighting must be provided so that critical work processes can be…
Anti-panic lighting
Anti-panic lighting is safety lighting for evacuation routes outside the buildings themselves. It is therefore lighting on access routes used by people to evacuate after leaving…
Local safety lighting zone
This is a zone or room from which evacuation is carried out and supervised. Safety lighting is implemented so that sufficient illuminance is provided for safe evacuation. The…
Adaptive evacuation system
The current safety lighting standard SRPS EN 1838:2025 provides for the possibility of an adaptive evacuation system. This means that personnel carrying out the evacuation can…
Inspection of protection against thermal effects – “thermography”
Modern non-contact temperature measurement technologies (thermography) enable inspection of the temperature of live parts as a fire-prevention measure. It can also be a reliable…
Inspection of surge protection devices
In a world in which the number of sensitive electronic components is increasing rapidly, overvoltage protection is becoming very important. In EU countries it is a legal…