Electrical Report question re asbestos flashguards

[Silly Sausage]

Explained my reasoning which I feel is justified..
Complying or not complying with the regs is not the issue.
The regs is not all about electrical safety of an installation otherwise we wouldn't have all the nonsense about metal consumer units and plastic trunking..

The rupturing of a fuse and the subsequent disturbance of the asbestos pads is an obvious hazard to whoever is in the vicinity.
I don't think you need me to explain all the relevent acts and exactly how this contravenes them,
if so then put down BS7671 and look elsewhere

Can you provide any evidence of anyone who has contracted Asbestosis who hasn't worked in an environment where they would be subected to airbourne asbestos other than that that was present from a fuse blowing out?

 

[Charlie_]

Ok.. I will try another approach.
Can the asbestos pads be disturbed?
yes or no

 

[trev]

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[Andy78]

Charlie, you clearly don't understand the scope of an EICR or the way codings are applied. I take it you also include your judgements on gas safety and structural building integrity on your reports ?
No ?
Oh that's because the report is limited to the scope of bs7671. And the reason for that ? To stop people too big for their boots including issues that do not have relevance to the report.

 

[Engineer54]

The vast majority of all electricians that have been diagnosed with asbestosis are those that were working in and around pipe and duct laggers using the blue and brown asbestos on building sites etc, in the bad old days. I doubt if you could find a single instance of this disease attributed directly to an electrician working on/with the old 3036 fuse boards.

I myself as an apprentice along with other apprentices went round all our factory fuse boards (hundreds of them) replacing there flashguards every shutdown actually cutting them to size from different width rolls of the stuff. As i say, if all your scaremongering had any truth to it, i'd be dead by now or bloody close to it!!

I'm all for taking sensible precautions, but taking the scaremongering attitude that pulling a 3036 fuse and you're destined to die, is just pure Crap!!

 

[Charlie_]

In this instance though a hazard is created directly due to the function of the electrical installation..

 

[Andy78]

In this instance though a hazard is created directly due to the function of the electrical installation..

This is your opinion only, based on no firm evidence, qualified judgement, or expertise, or regulation, and therefore has no place in the report.

I do understand your viewpoint and accept it could be a potential hazard, however it still has no place in the report as a coded observation.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Just another to add to the list...

http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk...asbestos-flashguards-4.html&ss=3541j1969635j8