Your answers Gentlemen, please. This is indicating a serious problem in the Industry. Trust is now zero. I am disgusted with the behavior of these alleged "inspectors" who are dim, dumb, deaf and blind, and cannot read the BBB. It is not good enough is it?
Well Z I know that this is your favourite line, but there isn't one. ?
Careless or foolish users are not on the list, because otherwise it would get us in court pronto. If one looks at this idea, then anyone could blame someone else for whatever happened, even if they deliberately cut a cable and deliberately caught hold of the ends. The damages claims would be endless, the excuse being "it was not in steel conduit, inside trunking with concrete protection against by mega-powerful new hammer drill" for example. Fortunately the BS7671 writers etc. are not that foolish. Usually, neither are the public.
I have it now. The origin was the red Regulations book. B.S. 7671 2008 page 4. Noting the changes to Chapter 41 the paragraph said that additional protection by an R.C.D. was to be made for socket outlets. The additional protection was to be provided in the event of failure of the provision for basic protection and/or provision for fault protection or carelessness by users of the installation.
So that R.C.D. protection lives on in the current Regs. We protect users from their own carelessness.
Well Z I know that this is your favourite line, but there isn't one. ?
Careless or foolish users are not on the list, because otherwise it would get us in court pronto. If one looks at this idea, then anyone could blame someone else for whatever happened, even if they deliberately cut a cable and deliberately caught hold of the ends. The damages claims would be endless, the excuse being "it was not in steel conduit, inside trunking with concrete protection against by mega-powerful new hammer drill" for example. Fortunately the BS7671 writers etc. are not that foolish. Usually, neither are the public.
I have it now. The origin was the red Regulations book. B.S. 7671 2008 page 4. Noting the changes to Chapter 41 the paragraph said that additional protection by an R.C.D. was to be made for socket outlets. The additional protection was to be provided in the event of failure of the provision for basic protection and/or provision for fault protection or carelessness by users of the installation.
So that R.C.D. protection lives on in the current Regs. We protect users from their own carelessness.
