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MrJack96

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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    I am afraid I do not follow your points at all Z. If the lights etc don't work in a company van, how do you get them fixed without telling the boss that something needs to be done? The situation with overweight vehicles is difficult because many places where they may be loaded do not have weighing facilities. A few have on-board weighing, large rubble trucks, etc, and some may be loaded by loaders that do weigh each bucket load. Light vans are the biggest problem because the load capacity is quite small and a few heavy objects like drums of cables can easily take them overweight. For some reason, the DSA love to find overweight vehicles, but being 5% overweight really should not take one into the area of inadequate braking or any structural issues, strangely they are quite touchy about a few 10s of kg on a 44 tonner, or slightly variable axle loads. 

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    I am afraid I do not follow your points at all Z. If the lights etc don't work in a company van, how do you get them fixed without telling the boss that something needs to be done? The situation with overweight vehicles is difficult because many places where they may be loaded do not have weighing facilities. A few have on-board weighing, large rubble trucks, etc, and some may be loaded by loaders that do weigh each bucket load. Light vans are the biggest problem because the load capacity is quite small and a few heavy objects like drums of cables can easily take them overweight. For some reason, the DSA love to find overweight vehicles, but being 5% overweight really should not take one into the area of inadequate braking or any structural issues, strangely they are quite touchy about a few 10s of kg on a 44 tonner, or slightly variable axle loads. 

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