From the HSE. Not about coding just a BIG fine and maybe something to be passed on to the recipiant of your EICR.
Trunking systems and distribution boards contain live parts, and control measures must be taken so that electrical operatives are not subject to the risk of electric shock.
Accidents have arisen through contact with exposed live parts when working in trunking and distribution boards. One fatal occurred in 1999 resulted when a contractor’s employee made direct contact with 40 mm of an uninsulated live cable at an in-line connector joint. He was removing a redundant cable from a trunking. The subsequent HSE prosecution in 2003 resulted in a fine of £220,000 and £30,000 costs to the company ordering the work for (i) not ensuring that the subcontractor was sufficiently competent to perform such work and (ii) not ensuring a safe system of work was in place. The subcontractor who employed the electrician was also fined £25,000 for not ensuring a safe system of work was in place. Another fatal accident occurred when an employee of a lift company working in a hotel knelt down to work inside a control cabinet and came into contact with a live terminal. The power to the lift had been isolated but a signal transformer inside the cabinet remained live. The court fined the lift company £50,000 for a breach of section 2.1 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and the hotel chain was fined £30,000 under regulation 3.1 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. A suitable risk assessment on the lift motor room had not been performed. Regulation 4(3) of the Electricity at Work Regulations (1989) requires that every work activity, including operation, use and maintenance of a system and work near a system shall be carried out in such a manner as not to give rise, so far as is reasonably practicable, to danger.
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Where electrical work is to be performed on a trunking system or distribution board, all conductors should be made dead. This will normally be accomplished by a safe system of work which includes the secure isolation of all conductors, which will subsequently be proven dead. Such work must be carried out by competent persons only. Regulations 12, 13, 14 and 16 of the EAWR are likely to be relevant. Regulation 12 gives requirements for cutting off the supply and for isolation, regulation 13 gives precautions to be taken for work on equipment which has been made dead and regulation 14 deals with work on or near live conductors. Regulation 16 requires persons working on electrical systems to be competent to prevent danger and injury