Outdoor entertainment licence condition

This is one of several conditions a local council has placed on an outdoor entertainment licence I am dealing with. The other conditions are not related to electrical safety. It seems odd that this single item would be specifically highlighted. Odd though it may be, apart from the rather large RCD requirement (smiley here), I also think it could be misconstrued. Is this just another example of misunderstanding the separate concepts of earthing and bonding?

Quite why the condition did not simply refer to the need for compliance with BS7909 or perhaps section 740 of 7671 instead of a singling out one issue, I do not know.  

Parents
  • I suspect that it's related to some incident where someone got electrocuted by live metalwork that hadn't been earthed/bonded/whatever.  The person who wrote that probably knows nothing of BS7909 or BS7671.

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  • I suspect that it's related to some incident where someone got electrocuted by live metalwork that hadn't been earthed/bonded/whatever.  The person who wrote that probably knows nothing of BS7909 or BS7671.

Children
  • A short length of anything less than about 400mm2 will disconnect the 30MA within the required 0,4 seconds as will the clamps connecting  the scaffolding itsellf   However, one suspects a sticky shift key as there are about 3 or 4 orders of magnitude between that and the PSSC of any normal power supply and more like 5 for supplies on camp sites festivals and so on.

    Mike.