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Posted By Ged
Hi folks,
Can anyone give me a bit of advice with regard to the workplace poster electricity regs 1998. Once upon a time my workplace had a large radio equipment room and the poster was displayed...still is but a bit grotty.
Now everything has changed and it contains just pc servers. There are no electricians using the room except if something goes wrong and a tech or bt man comes in to sort it. Do I still need to display this poster or can I ditch it.
Cheers
Ged
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Posted By David Thomas
Hi Ged
my response is "if in doubt - display it".
I can understand the dilemma as I am old enough to remember the days of valves the height of a man! In those days people had more time and worked carefully, very rarely electrocuted themselves, although I did pick up a couple of RF burns by putting my hand across a live antenna and earth (ouch)
The duty of the room may have changed but there is still mains, there is still a chance of someone doing something silly when in a hurry and all who use the room/equipment should receive a reminder (training) that electricity kills.
And dont forget the wooden broom near the door - not for cleaning but to pull the poor individual off the live circuit
regards
Dave
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Posted By Ken Taylor
It doesn't sound to me like the sort of room needing a poster of this type - but your competent electrical person should advise on this.
A related issue is that I often find out-of-date emergency first-aid posters in electrical intake rooms, boiler rooms, lift motor rooms and the like. I suspect that no-one still reads them - and particularly hope so as far as the recommended Holger-Neilsen and Sylvester methods of attempted resuscitation are concerned! Such posters should, of course, now refer to CPR with up-to-date ratios.
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Posted By George Wedgwood
You can legally ditch it - the only reason to have it would be as part of the assessed control measures to mitigate risk. Nowadays, the only poster you must display at a Workplace is the HSE information Poster "Health and Safety - What you should know". If you are not worried about risks in the room, take it down.
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Posted By John Mann
Think you mean the 1989 regs. There was a legal requirement to display the poster for the old (1948?) regulations but none for the 1989 regs. I think the poster companies produced a lot of new posters expecting the requirement to display would still be there.
Most of the posters I have seen simply print out the act and a lot of space is given to a list of doubtless long-defunct mines where exceptions apply. A poster giving a simple explanation of the regulations would be good but I haven't seen one.
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Posted By Ged
To Dave, Ken, John and George..thanks for the advice old ones ditched and the new first aid (electricity )now in place except for a boiler room containg a large generator which I have left a copy up for posterity.
Thanks again
Ged
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