Medical equipment servicing in Melbourne
Servicing, electrical safety testing and performance verification of medical electrical equipment for clinics, specialist practices, day procedure centres and healthcare facilities across Melbourne.
This work follows AS/NZS 3551, the management standard for medical equipment, which covers acceptance testing when equipment arrives, scheduled preventive maintenance through its life, and the records that go with both. Medical electrical equipment is designed to AS/NZS 3200 / IEC 60601, which sets tighter leakage current limits than ordinary appliances — which is precisely why it cannot be covered by a standard test and tag round.
The scope of the work
- Medical equipment calibration
- AS 3551 compliance testing
- Biomedical equipment repairs
- Performance verification
- Documentation and certification
- Medical device servicing
- Equipment safety testing
- Compliance audits
- Preventive maintenance
- Emergency repairs
Compliance, in plain terms
- AS/NZS 3551
- Management programs for medical equipment
- Acceptance testing, preventive maintenance, and the required records.
- IEC 60601 / AS 3200
- Medical electrical equipment safety
- Defines the applied-part classifications and leakage current limits.
- AS/NZS 3760
- In-service testing
- Covers the non-medical equipment in the same facility.
Asked and answered
How is this different from ordinary test and tag?
The limits and the method. Medical electrical equipment is tested against AS/NZS 3551 using leakage current limits from the IEC 60601 family, which are far tighter than those in AS/NZS 3760, and testing accounts for applied parts — the parts that contact the patient, classified as type B, BF or CF. A standard appliance tester is not the right instrument for this, and equipment can pass a 3760 test while failing the limits that actually apply to it.
What is acceptance testing?
Testing performed when equipment first arrives, before it is put into clinical service, to confirm it is electrically safe and performing to specification, and to establish the baseline that later results are compared against. AS/NZS 3551 treats it as the start of the equipment's record, and without that baseline later drift is much harder to detect.
How often does medical equipment need servicing?
AS/NZS 3551 works on a risk-based interval rather than one fixed schedule — how critical the device is, what the manufacturer specifies, and how heavily it is used all feed into it. Life-support and higher-risk devices are serviced more frequently than low-risk equipment. The interval is set per device and recorded.
Do you provide documentation for accreditation?
Yes. Each device gets a service record with its test results, and you receive a register covering the equipment inventory, results, and next-due dates. That documentation is generally what practice accreditation and auditors ask to see, so it is written to be handed over as-is.
What kinds of equipment do you cover?
General clinical and consulting-room equipment — the electrically powered devices in day-to-day use in practices and facilities. Highly specialised or vendor-locked equipment sometimes has to go back to the manufacturer, and it is better to establish that before a scheduled service round than during one. Send an inventory and we will tell you what we can and cannot cover.
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