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[wozz]

If it is that the wording has been there since when? and why now is it being interpreted in this way?

The culture should be minimize risk wherever possible, no point in earning money if you dont get to go home at the end of day.

After all DNO personnel around here when changing heads are only allowed one exposed conductor, and when doing joints with shear offs they have no exposed conductors. They have gone that way our industry is probably looking that way...

BUT, this measurement is essential if the safety of the installation is to be assessed and to some extent the users of that installation. The measurement can usually be taken from a position of relative safety ie in a fuseboard with internal guards with equipment to GS38 with competent personnel, live parts are only really accessible with a tool rather than a finger or a face! Sometimes standing on a rubber mat haha. I cant see too many problems in that case, after all the designer of the installation would have worked to a quoted PFC from the DNO this would have to be verified.

 

[edexlab]

Lack of experience , knowledge is going to notch up a higher body count, for people who haven't been taught how to do this safely

As we all know life is full of risks the people with the least experience will be the most at risk

If the trainees aren't intelligent enough to take in this information and use it as countless others have , before them,
then the training centres need to take a better look at the candidates rather than making the training fit the candidate
In my opinion the most dangerous electricians I've met are always the ones I wonder how they were accepted onto a course/apprenticeship