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You often hear the statement that “safety is paramount”, especially after a major accident. However, a balanced view must be taken, in which safety does not dominate and prevent effective business, nor is it ignored as has often occurred in the past. Good safety management allows you to do safely what you want to do: it is not about avoiding doing something just in case it is harmful. The Ministry of Defence’s (MOD’s) “business” involves providing military capability and so it will tolerate some safety risk exposure in order to achieve this: what is important is that the risk exposure is understood, managed to low levels and justified by the benefits gained. https://assets.publishing.service.go...BookIssue3.pdf
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7th Jun 2018, 6:01 pm | #123 |
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Graham, answer given in post 118 yesterday. Many thanks for showing us the latest MOD Booklet. For nearly 15 years of RAF service, earlier booklets, regulations, etc., governed my electronics career. Back in the 60's & 70's, the Armed Forces were a lot lot bigger than today, and NCO's & Officers a lot more unbending in interpreting safety regulations. I guess that's contributed to my present forthright views in this thread.
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Very worthwhile points. Whilst the majority of joe public isn't aware of sleeved/unsleeved plugs until they see Mark 1 and Mark 2 sitting next to each other (much the same way two blue cars thought to be identical are seen not to be when parked next to each other) increased awareness is generally a good thing in my opinion. One thing it highlights is certain territories manufacturing plugs with sleeved EARTH pins.. The amount of garbage coming in on the boat/s makes a mockery of our domestic regs., and the choice of 13A plug type can seem like a shoulder shrugging issue by comparison to the imports that the 'Ralph Naders' of electrical goods' expose on youtube.
One thing that does genuinely give me the creeps is metal bodied power drills- all mine now live with a portable RCD and there are too many variables for me to want to risk relying solely on the consumer unit trip. |
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10th Jun 2018, 1:27 am | #126 | |
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This is the 240V submersible pump from an indoor water feature I bought from a local garden centre of good repute. Notice the sleeved earth pin. OK, it's a Class 2 appliance and the earth pin could just as well be all plastic, but it rang alarm bells. Also the plug was fitted with a 13A fuse where I would have expected a 3A one. Not only that, the fuse was considerably lighter in weight than a known genuine one, suggesting it had no quenching sand filling. The fuse had no makers name or mark, which I understand is mandatory. ........... Obviously I returned the item and told them my thoughts about it, they seemed genuinely concerned, and shared my view that even if mains submersible pumps are allowed, for this application a pump fed from low voltage transformer is the only sensible way to go.
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10th Jun 2018, 6:12 pm | #127 |
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I found a factory fitted plug on the igniter of a gas hob.
It had the fuse wire bent over the ceramic tube and then the end cap just shoved on. Of course it was 13 amp for maximum bang if there is a short. It is now fused at 3 amps with a good fuse from Farnell. |
10th Jun 2018, 9:16 pm | #128 |
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Those fuses really are death traps. In the early 1970's mum's iron was fitted with one, and when the flex developed a short the copper vapour resulted in an arc within the plug in series with the arc in the flex. The arc resistance was sufficient not to blow the 30A wire fuse in the consumer unit. Fortunately mum was in the room and had the presence of mind to pull out the plug (it was an unswitched socket).
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12th Jun 2018, 12:16 pm | #129 |
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Just came across “Tuttiaudio”, I have never heard of them before, they sell restored Dansette Record Players, among other audio items.
https://www.tuttiaudio.co.uk/ They make some interesting comments about safety and selling restored Record Players, thought members would be interested. I have no connection with this firm. Cheers, John. Last edited by Station X; 12th Jun 2018 at 12:25 pm. Reason: Link added. |
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Whether new or second hand, all electrical goods sold must meet the Electrical Equipment Safety Regulations 1994 (Low Voltage Directive). ? If so then perhaps they haven't heard of the Electrical Equipment (Safety) regulations 2016 which have replaced the 1994 regs for new equipment. The 2016 regs say, and I am quoting straight from them: 3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply to electrical equipment— (a) placed on the market on or after the commencement date ... where “placing on the market” means the first making available of electrical equipment on the EU market ... (my bold). This is fundamental. The regs explicitly state, clearly and unambiguously, that they apply to equipment which has been sold for the first time since 2016. By extension they don't apply to equipment which was first sold before that date. I can't see how they could have been more clear about this. Cheers, GJ
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They're in business. They want to make money. A little dysangelism about the risks of improperly-restored equipment is pretty much to be expected .....
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12th Jun 2018, 2:49 pm | #132 |
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The requirements under the 1994 regs for second-hand equipment are summarised here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/electric...sponsibilities. There's no requirement for the bulk of the regulations to be satisfied (CE marking, documentation, testing etc). As has been said quite a few times above, equipment simply has to be 'safe'.
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On their web site they say something like “...we won’t sell record players that don’t have isolating transformers....” they then list some they won’t sell.
I just found it rather interesting. Cheers John |