The Electricity At Work Regulations 1989
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The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (EAW Regulations) came into force on 1 April 1990. This circular aims to highlight the key issues on inspection and enforcement for inspectors. It is not comprehensive.
General
(1) The majority of the regulations are directed at hardware requirements. Installations are required to be of proper construction; conductors must be insulated or other precautions taken; there must be means of cutting off the power and means for electrical isolation. The hardware requirements are complemented by a group of regulations stating principles of safe working practice. Regulation 14, which covers live working, is of particular importance.
(2) The scope of the EAW Regulations is limited by the definition of danger and injury solely
to risks arising from an electrical source and does not include, for example, control-system faults and conquent hazards such as aberrant machinery behaviour.
(3) The EAW Regulations revoke a number of specific regulations, but a number remain which either overlap or appear to overlap, for example
(i) the Electricity Supply Regulations 1988 (as amended): e the introduction to the Memorandum of guidance.春节高速堵车吗
(ii) the Low Voltage Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1988 (made under the Consumer Protection Act 1987);
(iii) the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1981: the give deemed to satisfy status to the Institution of Electrical Engineers Wiring Regulations; and
(iv) the Cinematographic (Safety) Regulations, 1955.
If demarcation between the ts of regulations and the EAW Regulations is unclear in
a particular ca, then details should be pasd to HSE, via the Enforcement Liaison Officer.
最爱湖东行不足(4) Appendices 1 and 2 of the Memorandum of guidance list publications relating to electrical safety.
高空飞艇Enforcement
(1) There is no expectation that inspectors should change their general approach to enforcement. However, particular attention should be paid to the enforcement of reg 14. (Work on, or near, live conductors).
(2) In situations where the 1908 Regulations previously applied or where HSW Act was ud, inspectors should now enforce the EAW Regulations.
(3) There should be no difference in enforcement between situations in which no specific regulations previously applied and tho which were regulated
(4) Nothing is required by the EAW Regulations which is not already the norm in the best undertakings.
(5) The EAW Regulations will apply to electrical work in domestic premis. Such work will fall to HSE to enforce.
(6) Expert assistance to prove the prence of electricity should not be necessary when contemplating enforcement action. Circumstantial evidence should suffice to indicate that electricity is prent and that the EAW Regulations apply. Such evidence could include:
季羡林先生(i) that the equipment carried a plate indicating that it worked at mains voltage;
(ii) that the equipment was connected to a supply via a 3-pin plug;
(iii) that the premis were supplied with electricity for lighting which was working; and
(iv) that a person on the premis paid an electricity bill.
In court, an expert witness should be able to u such evidence to express a professional
opinion as to the dangers which were prent or likely to occur.
(7) It may also be possible to u an on-site electrician to measure voltages and u his or her measurements in evidence.
(8) An improvement notice may be appropriate it conductors are inadequately protected against damage; for example, not routed through conduit, tubing or armouring in premis where the risk of physical damage is apparent. In particularly arduous conditions, eg construction work, stronger action may be considered.
(9) Expod and accessible live conductors or a lack of earthing could justify a prohibition notice. Lack of earthing can only be proved by measurement; simple obrvation is never adequate.
Interpretation (Reg 2)
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(1) The definitions of danger and injury are linked but distinguished to accommodate tho circumstances when persons must work on or so near live equipment that there is
a risk of injury, ie where danger is prent and cannot be prevented.
婚礼祝福歌曲(2) Danger includes danger to the public.
(3) The definition of electrical equipment excludes items which only generate electricity adventitiously, eg as static.
(4) Earthing and isolation are defined in regs.8 and 12 respectively.
Duties (Reg 3)
(1) Regulation 3 impos duties only on employers, employees, the lf-employed, and mine or quarry managers. In other cas HSW Act ss.3 and 4 will apply.
