A short video on why following proceedures matter

[UKMeterman]

Have a watch,

 

[MFS Electrical]

Maybe there should be a constant dead/live monitoring tool with a siren if it goes live. Even a fecking non touch voltage pen strapped to the cable would do it! Frankly even if I KNOW it's dead I still keep testing before I get up and close with any bare wire. I so often hear customers say "I'm scared of electricily" I always reply "So am I" which causes surprise but it shouldn't. You need to be.

I wouldn’t say scared but definitely respect it even if I know it’s dead I don’t like to touch the bare ends of a cable with a bit of caution and common sense everything will be fine I remember having to change a single socket over live in a shop (it was a ring) (we couldn’t find any way to isolate it (turned off the whole block of shops still was live)and the socket was smashed to bits) while I was still an apprentice don’t think I ever shat myself so much and that’s definitely where I learned to have respect for electricity I’ve done lots of live work and wouldn’t hesitate to do it again but the main thing is keep your head screwed on make sure you’ve got a plan/method statement in place and follow it to the letter then everything should be good.

 

[Which One’s Live?]

Saying they are morons is probably a bit unfair and not the point of the video. An accident is, after all, an unseen and unplanned event which, by definition, could happen to anyone.

As an example.

When planes crash and we see the catalogue of errors that cumulatively led up to it, it’s easy with 20/20 hindsight to say abc...xyz should have been done. But it wasn’t. Pilots aren’t exactly morons.

 

[Wilko]

Agree - sometimes they get info overload and just forget to fly the plane. In the video's case where the boss gives him stick to hurry up - I would have downed tools and called @elsparko over to chat with him .

 

[elsparko]

Agree - sometimes they get info overload and just forget to fly the plane. In the video's case where the boss gives him stick to hurry up - I would have downed tools and called @elsparko over to chat with him .

tell him to get in the hole himself if he can do it faster , if the customers home isnt on fire its not an emergency

if someone is obviously struggling with something and its time sensitive, then step in, otherwise train them on jobs not time sensitive

wouldnt take a trainee on a commercial site to show them inspection and testing procedures for example, show them on a job where time can be taken to explain fully and not miss bits of info rushing about

 

[Wilko]

Very well explained. I just wanted to slap him ...

 

[elsparko]

Very well explained. I just wanted to slap him ...

if i was working on the supply network id always assume live given the situation of not being able to locally isolate

i learned early on not to trust someones word that they have isolated the correct mcb, grabbing a metal glad switch and my finger tip on the common, gave my first boss a good shouting at for that since i was on a ladder, burnt my finger can still see the mark

a few times working on sockets they would just come back on, bit nippy! as it was a 1 man band operation health and safety was put to the side, working from digger buckets etc lol, was ok as long as someone left the engine on , but often the farmer would bugger off and the hydraulics would slowly start losing pressure

my second boss was a wealth of knowledge, no idea how he kept all the information in his brain on hand at any given time when questioned, his only flaw was giving directions to jobs "its the house with the blue boat" aye but which street is it on!