It is very rough and in your shoes I'd be recommending some improvements, but is also probably reasonably safe for now, so long as the earthing of the case is good, and if you can ensure the door stays shut. No need to condemn and lock off on the day. After all with the door shut, any explosion will be largely contained, and the door shows this to have been tested successfully at some point....
The 5 minute fix to keep the door shut could be as simple as a self drilling screw, or rather better some pop-rivets, and a hasp for a padlock cunningly bent to fit the side of the box.
I agree with the door open it is not meeting any IP rating, so a hazard to free poking fingers, but so is a grinder, or a lathe or a milling machine, and any number of other things likely to be found in the average workshop, so the culture of the occupants will be one of keeping hands out of the way. I'd far be more alarmed if you had said "at a children's playgroup" or similar.
Needs repair/replacement, but there is worse out there and in daily use, and the accident rare bears out it is OK.
I need to dig up a decent picture of a skeleton substation, they are at the high current end of the street main, and very much open to touch, once the door to the room is opened. It works, again because the folk who actually work near it are aware it is not a plaything.
It is very rough and in your shoes I'd be recommending some improvements, but is also probably reasonably safe for now, so long as the earthing of the case is good, and if you can ensure the door stays shut. No need to condemn and lock off on the day. After all with the door shut, any explosion will be largely contained, and the door shows this to have been tested successfully at some point....
The 5 minute fix to keep the door shut could be as simple as a self drilling screw, or rather better some pop-rivets, and a hasp for a padlock cunningly bent to fit the side of the box.
I agree with the door open it is not meeting any IP rating, so a hazard to free poking fingers, but so is a grinder, or a lathe or a milling machine, and any number of other things likely to be found in the average workshop, so the culture of the occupants will be one of keeping hands out of the way. I'd far be more alarmed if you had said "at a children's playgroup" or similar.
Needs repair/replacement, but there is worse out there and in daily use, and the accident rare bears out it is OK.
I need to dig up a decent picture of a skeleton substation, they are at the high current end of the street main, and very much open to touch, once the door to the room is opened. It works, again because the folk who actually work near it are aware it is not a plaything.
