Isolate Light to find Live Plug

[gazell72]

I

Went to isolate light & found this.
This has been rectified.
What further action would you take?

 

[westward10]

Bit like metal CUs, lighting circuits seem to blow people's minds. Had a similar incident a few years back now when doing PAT, the manager of the shop had linked two banks of sockets together at the counter using a flex with a plug at both ends. Yep I got a belt and the manager nearly did, you were lucky.

 

[LeeH]

I think you're gettting little over excited.

 

[Pete999]

If you have 239Volts lingering around it can't be safe to work on, isolate all supplies, if it is an EM fitting and has been wired as some suggest, then it could be thats how it was wired in the first place, if what you say is true and it has been passed by NICEIC, then look no further.Remember dangerous occurrences have to be specified under RIDDOR

 

[Flanders]

Bit like metal CUs, lighting circuits seem to blow people's minds. Had a similar incident a few years back now when doing PAT, the manager of the shop had linked two banks of sockets together at the counter using a flex with a plug at both ends. Yep I got a belt and the manager nearly did, you were lucky.

I had the same thing when we had to PA test a load of stuff at the German Market in Birmingham they had put a European plug on both end of a flex to power some 4 way power blocks , I smashed half the display trying to let go of it !!!

 

[Andy78]

I certainly would not be happy if that had come into my personal sphere of work. I'd be wanting to kick some arse in one direction or another.

 

[westward10]

I certainly would not be happy if that had come into my personal sphere of work. I'd be wanting to kick some arse in one direction or another.

Put as many measures in as you like but there is no accounting for other people's actions.

 

[Pete999]

If you have 239Volts lingering around it can't be safe to work on, isolate all supplies, if it is an EM fitting and has been wired as some suggest, then it could be thats how it was wired in the first place, if what you say is true and it has been passed by NICEIC, then look no further.Remember dangerous occurrences have to be specified under RIDDOR

As an edit point which I missed on the above post, the OP says he thinks it should be reported to the HSE, he has to be praised for finding this anomaly, but again the HSE are hardly going to act as in this case there were no injuries, however if the OP was injured (God forbid) the first thing the HSE would ask is was safe isolation of all supplies carried out? if the answer was a no then it would be th OP's fault for not checking. They don't take mistakes in safety practices, take it from me,I know what its like to be on the wrong end of one of their investigations.

 

[Andy78]

Put as many measures in as you like but there is no accounting for other people's actions.

I don't understand what you mean by that. The measures put in place should have been installing to BS7671. This has clearly not been done and the installation left in a dangerous state with regard to maintenance.
Or are you saying ....... you can write as many rules in the regs as you like, but there's always some numpty working under a NICEIC banner waiting to put peoples lives at risk ?

 

[westward10]

It is a tricky one because you wouldn't expect the plug to be live, never assume anything I suppose.

 

[westward10]

I don't understand what you mean by that. The measures put in place should have been installing to BS7671. This has clearly not been done and the installation left in a dangerous state with regard to maintenance.
Or are you saying ....... you can write as many rules in the regs as you like, but there's always some numpty working under a NICEIC banner waiting to put peoples lives at risk ?

The latter, the numpty who decided to power up a second bank of sockets using a flex with a plug on either end who wasn't a spark at all, the manager of the shop saving some money, you know "oh I can do that".

 

[Wilko]

My 20p worth : This is sooo bad I would report it as it's a near miss, at least. And there could be more waiting... What happens to the report is another thing.

 

[hasel5]

How did you rectify the problem?
Where was the back feed from ?

 

[gazell72]

Put as many measures in as you like but there is no accounting for other people's actions.

That's why it should be done by a "skilled" person, not someone with little knowledge, skills or experience.

 

[gazell72]

I don't understand what you mean by that. The measures put in place should have been installing to BS7671. This has clearly not been done and the installation left in a dangerous state with regard to maintenance.
Or are you saying ....... you can write as many rules in the regs as you like, but there's always some numpty working under a NICEIC banner waiting to put peoples lives at risk ?

Both Andy.

 

[gazell72]

My 20p worth : This is sooo bad I would report it as it's a near miss, at least. And there could be more waiting... What happens to the report is another thing.

I agree