The official guides, in your pocket

Topic guides, one page each

10 topic guides, one good page per topic, written from the regulators' and power companies' own sources: what the rules say, step by step on site, the paperwork to give and keep, and the common mistakes. Made to read on your phone, with sections that fold away.

• Licences and running your business
• Safety on site
• Testing and certificates
• Switchboards, RCDs and circuits
• Plus 6 more topics
• Ask Max and he answers from the guides, with a link to the page

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Free official documents, with the key points

26 free documents from regulators, government and official industry bodies, each boiled down to the points you need on site, with a link to the publisher's own copy. Search them on your phone, on the job.

• Testing an installation before it goes into service
• Smoke alarms, test and tag, and emergency lighting
• Solar and batteries, live work and reporting an incident
• Split system air con, data cabling and NBN points
• Licence renewals and consumer law
• Every card shows the day its points were last checked

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Testing procedures, a tap away

Not sure of the steps for a test? Tap How? next to it on the certificate form for the procedure, step by step, from the Electrical Safety Office's testing guide.

• Continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, RCD and fault loop
• The safety checks before you start
• Right where you record the result

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Watch how it works

Queensland first, other states where they differ

Each guide starts with the Queensland rules, then notes where New South Wales, Victoria and the other states do it differently. Never copied from the Standards: we name the Standard and the clause instead.

• Links straight to the official page or PDF
• Re-checked when a guide changes

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