In Order
to comply with new legislation, every home owner where an Electric Fence
System is in use, is required to have an Electric Fence Compliance
Certificate (EFC).
We have teams of trained Certification Officers
that will perform a complete inspection of your electric fence system at
your home, residential complex or business premises.
If your fence
is found to be compliant, we will issue you with the required EFC
certificate which remains valid for a period of two years.
Should
your electric fence system not be compliant, we will supply you with a
complete report of the required changes to make your Electric Fence
Compliant and at the same time, we will have one of our accredited
installers issue you with an accurate quote for all the work required.
All our inspections are done strictly according to the parameters set
out in the legislation and regulations. Our Certification Officer will
explain every item that does not comply, together with the relevant
criteria, to you. This offers you complete peace of mind that by dealing
with us, you get the facts! Once the work is completed by one of our
accredited installers, we will issue you with the required compliance
certificate. To find out more about the legislation, the requirements,
the inspection process and some valuable information relating to the
regulations, scroll down to the next section on this page. You are also
welcome to use our enquiry form to send us an enquiry via email and we
will respond with all the information you may need.
Should you wish to book an inspection, please complete the fields on our "ENQUIRY FORM" page or call us on 072 126 0020.
Electric Fence Inspections.
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTRIFIED FENCING (SANS 60335-2-76 - South Africa):
Wall Height: Minimum wall height of private property to be secured - 1.5 metres.
Brackets: Upright brackets may be used without any height restriction.
Angled brackets: Brackets can be angled at no more than 45 degrees out
and are to be installed on the inside of the boundary wall.
Neighbours: It is not permissible to angle brackets into a neighbour’s property without their knowledge or consent.
Hazard:
Electrified fences are to be installed and operated so that they cause
no electrical hazard or entanglement to persons or animals.
Barbed wire or razor wire: These shall not be electrified by an energiser.
Warning Signs: Electric fencing installed along a public road or pathway shall be securely identified with
YELLOW WARNING SIGNS (100 x 200 cm) at intervals not exceeding 10 metres. All gates and access points to have warning signs.
Electrified Gates: To be capable of being opened/closed without the person receiving a shock.
These
are just the basic regulations concerning domestic installations and do
not include all the technical requirements and specifications.
Certification Process.
What is the process when requiring these certificates?
You, or your agent or even your transferring attorney can request that we perform these inspections for you.
Click
on the "ENQUIRY FORM" tab on our menu and simply complete the fields
relating to Compliance Certificates for Electric fencing.
Once
we receive the request we will contact the seller, who is generally
responsible for the costs involved, to make the necessary arrangements
to enable us to perform the inspection.
The
inspection fees are payable in advance in order to confirm the booking
and are due irrespective of the outcome of our inspection.
The inspections have two possible outcomes, and are based on legislation and regulations.
Should
the installation be in line with the legislation and regulations, our
inspector will submit a report to our offices confirming that your
installation is compliant and we will issue the certificates within two
working days of having received the report. There is no additional cost
for the certificate.
Should
the installation not be compliant we will issue you a report and
instruct one of our accredited installers to supply you with a quote on
the necessary remedial work that is required to make your installation
compliant.
On
receipt of the quote, you may decide to accept the quotation after
which we will instruct the respective installer to affect the necessary
work. Upon confirmation from the installer that the work has been
completed, and subsequent to having received a release notification from
you, we will issue the certificate.
In order to ensure that all
workmanship is completed in accordance to the legislation, we may
perform a second inspection prior to issuing the certificate. This
second inspection will be free of charge and serves as a "quality
control" mechanism. It is aimed at ensuring that our accredited
installers retain the highest quality standards and that their work is
in line with our standards and legal requirements.
OR
You may opt to not accept our installers quotation and make use of an alternative company to affect the required work.
If
you do decide to make use of another company we would recommend
that you ensure that they are qualified and authorized to issuing you
with a certificate, however you should bear in mind that they may also
charge you an inspection fee, leaving you liable for two inspection
fees. Alternatively, we can perform a second inspection on the work
undertaken by the company you chose, in which case a second inspection
fee will be payable and we cannot guarantee that a certificate will be
issued due to the possibility that the work may not be in line with
regulations. In the event that you wish to make use of an alternative
company to perform the necessary work, and require us to certify such
work, we strongly recommend that payment for such work be held over
until such time as a compliance certificate is issued by us. We cannot
be held responsible for work undertaken by installers that are not
accredited by EFC to perform such work.
One of the main
purposes of this new legislation is to ensure that installers are
qualified and certified to perform safe and functional electric fence
system installations. The legislation falls under section 35 of the
Machinery and Occupational Safety Act, 1983 (Act 6 of 1983) and is
designed for your safety and the safety of others. Persons that operate
non compliant electric fence systems will be liable to penalties under
section 23 of the Act and persons that are shocked or injured by non
compliant electric fence systems will have legal recourse under law
against every users or lessor of the electric fence system in question,
regardless of the reason they were shocked or injured.
Penalties for non compliance.
It
should be noted that section 23 of the regulations states : "Any person
who contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of regulations 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 22(1)
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding R 1000,00 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six
months and, in the case of continuous offence, to an additional fine of
R5,00 or to additional imprisonment of one day for each day on which the
offence continues: Provided that the period of such additional
imprisonment shall in no case exceed 90 days."
Compliance Certificates
