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Best practices

Hi all can someone please give me some advice on the following? 

 

  1. say you’re maintaining a circuit and you realise parts of the circuits do not comply to the regulations what is the standard procedure for example ZS values that do not comply or IR that’s too low. I know in the industrial setting we are pressured to keep things going (critical kit) but say even if we’ve got it in writing we’ve said it’s potentially dangerous and we’ve been told in writing to switch it back on who is then at fault?

 

  1. say the circuit is an old installation and complied at the time of installation if we were then doing work on that circuit say for instance changing adding a spur to sockets that aren’t RCD protected what is the protocol with regards to bringing it up to current standard? 

 

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  • MrJack96: 
    So from an employees point of view if something has a fault on it poor Ze, IR under 1 Meg what is best practice for leaving these circuits if we then know about them surely we should have the duty to lock them off, however I know it’s different when carrying out EICRs as potentially dangerous is detailed on the report and not always remedied there and then?

    As an employee you have a legal duty of care to undertake work safely and not to introduce or allow any dangerous situation, either by neglect, negligence or accident that could harm anybody else. If you allow a dangerous situation to exist you are complicit by being negligent.

     

    Z.

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  • MrJack96: 
    So from an employees point of view if something has a fault on it poor Ze, IR under 1 Meg what is best practice for leaving these circuits if we then know about them surely we should have the duty to lock them off, however I know it’s different when carrying out EICRs as potentially dangerous is detailed on the report and not always remedied there and then?

    As an employee you have a legal duty of care to undertake work safely and not to introduce or allow any dangerous situation, either by neglect, negligence or accident that could harm anybody else. If you allow a dangerous situation to exist you are complicit by being negligent.

     

    Z.

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