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I work for a company who installs electric heaters.

Usually we remove old storage heaters and replace them with our heaters using the same point with a new switched fcu.

The fuse board is usually just an old Wylex type with just an on off switch and non switched fuses.
The board is powered from the live coming out of the radio teleswitch meter so to make the board live 24 hours we remove this cable and put it into a Henley block which has permanent live feed.

The questions are....
Are we allowed to touch these meters as there are stickers all over them saying property of the electricity board.

Secondly, using the old points coming from the old style board with just an on off switch. Is this ok?
 
I am a bit uneasy with this: "
Electrician suffered shock when electrical supply had not been properly isolated
Inadequate isolation
An electrician received a severe electric shock whilst carrying out building refurbishment and fitting out work in a new estates office. The electrical supply had not been properly isolated." If he is an electrician, how come he did not go through the safe isolation procedure? It should be embedded on the back of any decent sparks eyelids surely? I find it a bit odd it is on the HSE website.
Maybe he needed to pay the bills
 
Luke, I suggest you speak to the local HSE Inspector confidentially and let him know what is going on.

From what you say there are some very basic but serious breaches of Legislation including the HASAW Act 1975, and the Electricity at Work Regulations. In addition it sounds like you are breaching the requirements of BS7671 as well, and into the bargain interfering with DNO equipment.

An alternative approach would be to speak to a safety officer at the DNO and arrange for him to carry out a "coincidental" visit whilst you guys are at a premises
;)
 

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