Live Work - Electrical Safety (UK) Ltd - - Sheffield UK England Nationwide Service.

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires you to assess the risk to workers and others who may be affected by their activities. Electrical staff routinely work on live high power equipment, carrying out tasks such as fault finding and diagnostic testing without fully understanding the consequences of what will happen to them should an electrical flashover/arc flash occur. Frequently there is no risk assessment in place even though this should always follow the rigorous tests of reasonableness in working live in the first place. The problem with live work is that until recently there has been no way of predicting the amount of harm to a worker whose screwdriver or test probes slip whilst he is working in a live panel.

Electrical Safety (UK) can advise and carry out the necessary calculations to predict the harm to operatives (and bystanders) should an electrical flashover occur and can advise on required work place precautions.

Click here to view a PDF of Mike Frain's Article on Flashover
Featured in Power Engineer May-July 2007

Click here to view Mike Frain's Article in Electrical Review.
September 2007 - PDF Format.

For further information or to arrange a (free) initial consultaiton please contact us.

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