Warehouses and workshops
What should a warehouse or workshop send before an inspection?
A warehouse, workshop or industrial-unit enquiry should include the boards, plant areas, loading or working areas, and any access limits that may affect the visit.
Reviewed 7 October 2026 by Michael (Technical Supervisor) and George Opsenica (Director, Codeex Maintenance Ltd). General guidance, not a reading of your own report and not legal advice.
What each reviewer checked
- Michael: Technical review of the exact current technical sentences on this page. Scope is technical and electrical only. This is not legal review..
- George Opsenica: Owner presentation of this current page. Review of the current operating-practice sentences. The page is distinct enough as industrial and workshop inspection planning. The three GENERAL editorial boundaries are accepted. This is not a technical electrical review and it is not legal advice..
This is not office planning
An occupied warehouse or workshop is planned around industrial distribution, plant, loading or working areas, and when those places can actually be opened.
Use the commercial EICR enquiry and include the industrial-site details needed to plan the visit.
This page does not publish an industrial tariff, a warehouse rate, or a fixed-price industrial inspection.
If the premises are primarily an office, use the occupied-office planning guidance instead.
What the inspection is about
The inspection covers the fixed installation in the extent that is agreed.
Name the distribution boards that serve the warehouse, workshop or unit, including boards in plant rooms, mezzanines or loading areas.
A three-phase supply, where it exists, is a type of supply. It does not by itself decide the codes or the price.
A classification code should not be inferred from a building type, a photograph or a description of plant. The inspector attributes codes from the inspection and testing evidence.
Plant, loading areas and isolation
Say which plant rooms, machinery supplies or process equipment must stay on, and who can open those rooms.
Say which loading bays, working floors or yards are in the visit, and whether vehicles or operations will still be using them.
Access to a locked board, a plant room or a working area is agreed before that place is opened.
Isolation, where it is needed, has to be planned around the equipment that must stay on. This page does not set that plan for a particular building.
This page does not promise a shutdown window, out-of-hours attendance, or that operations will stop for the visit.
Boards
Name the distribution boards that serve the warehouse, workshop or unit, including boards in plant rooms, mezzanines or loading areas.
Plant
Say which plant rooms, machinery supplies or process equipment must stay on, and who can open those rooms.
Loading and working areas
Say which loading bays, working floors or yards are in the visit, and whether vehicles or operations will still be using them.
Access
Access to a locked board, a plant room or a working area is agreed before that place is opened.
What this page will not do
This guide does not describe a specific Codeex customer, warehouse or completed industrial job.
This guide does not present warehouse failure rates or industrial-stock statistics.
This page does not give legal advice.
Use the commercial enquiry
Send that list with the commercial EICR enquiry: the boards, the plant, the loading or working areas, and any access or isolation limit.
Related pages
Name the plant, the boards and the access limits.
Book the commercial inspection and name the plant, loading bays, workshop boards and access limits.
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