High Zs on cct

[pevvers]

Lenny, the site has THOUSANDS of leads with faults like those!

I would take it higher up the chain if I were you, bypassing this "engineer".

I'm not sure if you're an employee, or a subby, but if you're an employee, be aware of duties placed onto you by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Act 1999 -

(2) Every employee shall inform his employer or any other employee of that employer with specific responsibility for the health and safety of his fellow employees -

(a) of any work situation which a person with the first-mentioned employee's training and instruction would reasonably consider represented a serious and immediate danger to health and safety


Just some food for thought and statutory regulations are pretty good when persuading. I would class this defect as a serious and immediate danger to health and safety.

 

[devon1]

I dont think I want to know anymore about that site, I have enough trouble sleeping as it is.

yes, nightmare! the trouble is it's a deep routed long standing story of neglect and every person from sparks upwards is in a failing system, nobody seems to be able to control it.
from experience if you go to the HSE, because they are not (usually) electrically trained they pass it back to the engineer and it all goes around in a circle again.
cheers anyway!

 

[pevvers]

yes, nightmare! the trouble is it's a deep routed long standing story of neglect and every person from sparks upwards is in a failing system, nobody seems to be able to control it.
from experience if you go to the HSE, because they are not (usually) electrically trained they pass it back to the engineer and it all goes around in a circle again.
cheers anyway!

There's no need to go to the HSE, if it's a construction site then there will be someone in charge of the health and safety on the site. At least if you inform them then you have fulfilled your statutory duties and if something did happen you'll be in the clear.

 

[devon1]

Lenny & Pevvers, thanks guys,

I will go and speak with the senior H & S man, i have already met him when i did the induction a while ago and got on with him very well.
i'll have a confidential meeting with him. i do indeed owe it to those poor unknowing workers of the dangers they are working in.

Lenny, i hope you can sleep better now!