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Fatal Incident - Safe Isolation failure?

jbrameld

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

    More by luck and circumstances sometimes. I carried out an I&T today on a holiday chalet which is changing ownership. There is evidence of D.I.Y. meddling. A three bar infrared wall heater showed no earthing. It is a class 1 type. It is fed from a 13 Amp. socket hard wired to a switched  fused connection unit with a neon indicator. All good so far. But its supply circuit's C.P.C. was left disconnected behind the switched fused connection unit.

     

    If the case became live, a safety aspect is that the chalet floor is suspended wood. The floor coverings are plastic and nylon and there are no extraneous conductive parts in the room. 

     

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

    More by luck and circumstances sometimes. I carried out an I&T today on a holiday chalet which is changing ownership. There is evidence of D.I.Y. meddling. A three bar infrared wall heater showed no earthing. It is a class 1 type. It is fed from a 13 Amp. socket hard wired to a switched  fused connection unit with a neon indicator. All good so far. But its supply circuit's C.P.C. was left disconnected behind the switched fused connection unit.

     

    If the case became live, a safety aspect is that the chalet floor is suspended wood. The floor coverings are plastic and nylon and there are no extraneous conductive parts in the room. 

     

    Z.

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