Although full time job, sometimes been asked to repair (like everyone else on this site) electrical /mechanical equipment big or small up to the not so easy washing machines and mig welders. Down to a few items nowadays due to the throw-away attitudes that people have, as items do not cost as much as the older items once did.
The skip sites were valuable to me to hunt for parts as I repaired items for no cost whenever I could. Due to H&S you are not allowed now this past few years to remove anything from a skip site.
The big winner of this new law. "The right to repair " will be of course that big rich company where you can get anything even a small £1 switch in a big cardboard box (and I use them for parts), the loser will be the with hundreds of big vans travelling all over the country for small items.
This is only a small courteous take on this from me, others may have a more generous view.
Just thought over lunch: Of course they could be managing their safety properly ?: so carrying out a risk assessment, which should raise the risk that repairs are carried out incorrectly so creating a safety hazard, and the way to control this is to limit who can carry out repairs is by limiting it to certified repairers, and then a way in turn of controlling that would be to not generally publish repair data. That would be quite a reasonable approach from a HASAWA point of view. But I suspect that 99% of the time that isn't actually why data isn't being made available, I suspect it's far more an attitude of why would they want the hassle (as above).
Just thought over lunch: Of course they could be managing their safety properly ?: so carrying out a risk assessment, which should raise the risk that repairs are carried out incorrectly so creating a safety hazard, and the way to control this is to limit who can carry out repairs is by limiting it to certified repairers, and then a way in turn of controlling that would be to not generally publish repair data. That would be quite a reasonable approach from a HASAWA point of view. But I suspect that 99% of the time that isn't actually why data isn't being made available, I suspect it's far more an attitude of why would they want the hassle (as above).
