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Fatal Incident - Safe Isolation failure?

What do we think on this incident, reported a bit differently in these two locations:

Whilst very sad and no-one should lose their life in the workplace (or anywhere else) I can't help thinking that an engineer of 30 years' experience should have been familiar with safe isolation procedures, and perhaps these were not followed.  There are of course many unreported possibilities such as multiple supply sources not identified but if you follow the mantra of poking a verified test device probe in before anything else (like your fingers or a screwdriver….), then your chances of falling victim are much reduced.

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  • I had a close shave before my training.

    Plug in a vacuum cleaner and turn it on. Then go to the CU and ensure that the breaker turns it off (and on and off again). My near miss is that I very nearly opened the wrong JB, which would have been live! In fact, I might have opened it, but then thought better of attacking the terminals.

    Somebody was looking after me that day.

    I suspect that the DIY-minded general public get away with quite a lot, more by luck than judgement.

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  • I had a close shave before my training.

    Plug in a vacuum cleaner and turn it on. Then go to the CU and ensure that the breaker turns it off (and on and off again). My near miss is that I very nearly opened the wrong JB, which would have been live! In fact, I might have opened it, but then thought better of attacking the terminals.

    Somebody was looking after me that day.

    I suspect that the DIY-minded general public get away with quite a lot, more by luck than judgement.

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