It just feels wrong

[Octopus]

I might just raise this at my Stroma assessment in the Spring.

The cables changed colours over 10 years ago FFS!

If you don't know what colours do what, you shouldn't fiddle with them!

 

[Octopus]

I've created a thread and a poll - lets see what the members on here think....

Dual colour warning labels - http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/threads/dual-colour-warning-labels.117102/#post-1223534

 

[Andy78]

I might just raise this at my Stroma assessment in the Spring.

The cables changed colours over 10 years ago FFS!

If you don't know what colours do what, you shouldn't fiddle with them!

I think their view will be that any non-conformance with BS7671 will be something they require evidence of being rectified.

You might be better off aiming these views at the IET and see if you can persuade them to take this one out of the 18th ?

 

[Lastminuteandy]

I don't even think it requires a notice, a skilled person should never assume the presence of only a single circuit.

If you aint tested it before touching it then you aint safe
.....and just a small aside.....my tester broke once and a live one slipped through (some plonker managed to run a live wire to an en-suite DIY job that did not go through any of the house breakers). It touched the handle on a radio and exploded it!

 

[7029 dave]

Safe isolation/ prove dead is the answer.

 

[westward10]

Safe isolation/ prove dead is the answer.

And you do that every time you remove a plug.

 

[HandySparks]

And you do that every time you remove a plug.

Wrong thread?

 

[westward10]

Wrong thread?

Doh