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#1 Posted : 29 April 2009 09:45:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert_N I really don’t have a clue on this one. The maintenance department have asked me if they are allowed to enter the Low Voltage (LV) rooms that are on site, a number of them are trained electricians with the rest having attended electrics awareness courses. The work to be carried out is resetting breakers but one of the engineers said he was under the impression that you need to be certificated to carry out any work. Please Help!
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#2 Posted : 29 April 2009 09:54:00(UTC)
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Posted By A Campbell First area of caution is why people need to reset breakers? If this is not managed as to the reason why breakers are having to be reset then you have an underlying problem with your systems that would require electrical engineers to investigate? Once done you may wish to consider that on occasions breakers require to be reset following a rare outage etc and nominate authorised people who will be given restricted knowledge, training and risk assessed as to what they can or cannot do in an LV room?
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#3 Posted : 29 April 2009 10:01:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert_N The reason for the breaker tripping is being worked on but the core question is the part I need help on. Is there a specific qualification required entering and carry out work in an LV room i.e. reset a breaker? Thanks for your reply Andy
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#4 Posted : 29 April 2009 12:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By bill.keating I started out life as an electrician, never heard of a qualification to enter an LV room. Your guys are qualified sparks, and there shouldn't be any exposed conductors accessible. I would say that if the breaker does not reset first time, the downstream distribution should be checked for defects, but I'm not trying to teach your lads to suck eggs.
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