I suspect that from now on, by default, every inspection will have an ‘Unsatisfactory’ outcome as an ***-covering exercise. No one would dare pass an existing installation for fear of some ‘expert witness’ coming out of the woodwork to contradict their findings. One man's C1 is another's C2 and it has been ever thus. Until the IET begins to inject some prescriptive black and white into the regulations, then the arguments as to what does, and what does not constitute a non-compliance will rage on infinitum. I'll bet the lawyers are rubbing their hands as a consequence.
I suspect that from now on, by default, every inspection will have an ‘Unsatisfactory’ outcome as an ***-covering exercise. No one would dare pass an existing installation for fear of some ‘expert witness’ coming out of the woodwork to contradict their findings. One man's C1 is another's C2 and it has been ever thus. Until the IET begins to inject some prescriptive black and white into the regulations, then the arguments as to what does, and what does not constitute a non-compliance will rage on infinitum. I'll bet the lawyers are rubbing their hands as a consequence.
