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Pollution categories and their effects on EICR's

Hi Guys & Gals,

So an interesting topic cropped up the other day in regards to the pollution category rating for BS EN60898 devices and thought I would share with the group ?

It is part of the larger question of where BS7671 ends and other standards start in relation to EICR's.

It is usually a fairly obvious line and often excludes a lot in a non domestic situation!

So to the crooks of it;

You are working in a pollution cat 3 environment and the devices are BS EN 60898, a deviation from standard, but these devices are in what is a site built panel which (known or unknown to the installer)  falls outside of BS7671 and in to the realms of 60204 and or 61439. There is no markings, paperwork oh hint of CE/UKCA, the equipment is similar to that you might find in any installation yet housed in a bespoke panel like construction.

In BS7671 terms (which we know do not apply here) you might say the control panel has defects which make it's safety questionable and simply FI for the Tech file of CE documentation to confirm compliance.

Where do you stop using the EIRC for reporting and what might you use instead where a client requests full site inspection…

Discuss away!

Martyn

 

 

 

 

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  • It would be unprofessional to do the electrical equivalent of the cops stopping at the county line in American films. If there is something that is dangerous, either because it exposes a shock risk, or if the ADS is compromised because the box is full of birds nests or something then it would be churlish to say ‘not listed in BS7671, not my problem’

    You may then have a ‘see accompanying letter/notes’  that can say non BS7671 things like 

    XYZ is dangerous because whatever, or perhaps something is a technical non-compliance but most unlikely to be  dangerous,  or  

    'this concerns  us, but is outside of our area of professional expertise,  so we strongly recommend that XYZ is further inspected by a mechanical engineer/ bomb disposal expert/ gas fitter/lift expert/ member of the institute of Feng Shui practitioners"… delete as applicable..

    Mike.

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  • It would be unprofessional to do the electrical equivalent of the cops stopping at the county line in American films. If there is something that is dangerous, either because it exposes a shock risk, or if the ADS is compromised because the box is full of birds nests or something then it would be churlish to say ‘not listed in BS7671, not my problem’

    You may then have a ‘see accompanying letter/notes’  that can say non BS7671 things like 

    XYZ is dangerous because whatever, or perhaps something is a technical non-compliance but most unlikely to be  dangerous,  or  

    'this concerns  us, but is outside of our area of professional expertise,  so we strongly recommend that XYZ is further inspected by a mechanical engineer/ bomb disposal expert/ gas fitter/lift expert/ member of the institute of Feng Shui practitioners"… delete as applicable..

    Mike.

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