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VRF Equipment fed off local Lighting Circuits

Eddie Currents
What are your thoughts with VRF Equipment being fed off local Lighting circuits – For me not good practice and strongly oppose this but i cannot find a Clause anywhere in the new Regulations. Has anyone ever come across this before or am i being too pedantic ? The VRF Units will have local isolation but for me its still a problem as you will lose your Lighting if you need to switch off at the Breaker for any reason like switching for Mechanical Maintenance. 

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    That's bad. All the more reason why it's good practice to throw a main switch before you enter a void tbh. Which is our company policy. It could have been far worse if you'd lifted the loft hatch and put your hand onto something arcing or a joint box with a lid missing. I can relate to this though when I was an apprentice back in the 1980s I found a trapped cable in a loft arcing away and it saved me hours of time fault finding simply because the power was still switched on. Dammed if you do dammed if you dont but this day and age it's all about risk assessments.
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    That's bad. All the more reason why it's good practice to throw a main switch before you enter a void tbh. Which is our company policy. It could have been far worse if you'd lifted the loft hatch and put your hand onto something arcing or a joint box with a lid missing. I can relate to this though when I was an apprentice back in the 1980s I found a trapped cable in a loft arcing away and it saved me hours of time fault finding simply because the power was still switched on. Dammed if you do dammed if you dont but this day and age it's all about risk assessments.
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