Hi All,

I recently spent an evening looking on the forums to see if there had been any progress on this topic, unfortunately I didn't find anything except the below quote.

my favourite of the night from Typiod

"Do you know the difference between unlawful and illegal? No I will tell you one is a big sick bird the other is against the law?" 

it's been a long night ;-)

On a serious note I did find something with a google search, Napit has a PDF were they state.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have confirmed that there is ‘no legislative barrier to prevent DNO/Supplier authorising others, including registered electricians, providing that those electricans are competent to carry out such work

A low risk, cost effective way of achieving this would be to: Create a new Scheme, operated by UKAS accredited Certification Bodies, to register competent persons to carry out the temporary removal and replacement of service fuse cut-out seals in domestic installations. The requirements of such a scheme would be under the Electrotechnical Assessment Specification (EAS) and would operate UK wide. Registrants on the scheme would be individuals, and would need to meet industry agreed competence requirements and be regularly assessed to ensure their ongoing competence. Each registrant of the scheme would be issued with temporary service cut-out seals which have a unique identifiable number to ensure work can be monitored.

This leads me to believe that there is in fact a scheme where an electrician can be registered to carry out safe isolation by removing the DNO fuse, or am I missing something?

Does anyone know of such a scheme or if its running?

This got me thinking and I stumbled across a course link below, which has a practical assessment of removing and replacing the cut out fuse.

210 Working in the vicinity of DNO/IDNO equipment including G39 – Via East Midlands (viaem.co.uk)

I guess all I'm looking for a bit bit of clarity, reading the above it seems as though we should be able to register and if required train to be competent at isolating the supply by removing the fuse.

You would think that this would be the way forward and they would encourage electricians to work safely and if possible fit double pole isolators at the same time for future works.