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It's made for little ones in a nursery by the looks.I want to know if @widdler was standing on a chair when he took that photo or is it a kitchen made for a 6 year old?
To start with, how do you know a 6 year old is using electrical equipment?You tell me how a 6 year old, using electrical equipment on the socket shown, with no risk assessment, no 30mA RCD, or skilled person observing who is empowered with the wisdom to keep 20 kids to work safely is a C3?
To start with, how do you know a 6 year old is using electrical equipment?
I know because I asked for the task specific risk assessment relating to the pupil's use of electrical equipment.If a 6 year old is using electrical equipment, how do you know a risk assessment has not been conducted?
Statutory Legislation requires any person who would come into contact with electricity or electrical devices as part of their work, to satisfy the conditions in BS7671 to be deemed either skilled or instructed.
Are you suggesting that the School is or intends committing a criminal act, by not complying with Statutory legislation?
What about in dwellings, do you check whether there are children residing at the address of the installation then apply a code C2 if there are.
When you say 'used by everybody' is that supervised or unsupervised?
There is no way that any edition or amendment of BS7671 is ever going to say earlier editions or amendments had unsafe requirements.
Perhaps I have repeated myself, only because you haven't answered.
You stated that you asked for a task specific Risk Assessment.
Such a statement suggests you expect there to be a written Risk Assessment.
There's no law requiring written Risk Assessments.
Yes documenting Risk Assessments can be useful, but still there is no Statutory requirement to do so.
So when you asked for the Risk Assessment, did they respond that they had not conducted one, or just that they didn't have a written copy?
Still no explaination as to why you treat dwellings differently to Schools. Perhaps electricity in dwellings is different from that in Schools?
You mentioned reference guides, summary sheets and NICEIC pocket guides. What you need is none of those, you just need a copy of BS7671.
As long as you conduct your inspection in accordance with BS7671, everything will be fine.
Problem with your coding, is it is not in accordance with BS7671.
You are basically stating that something is unsafe today which the Regulations said was safe last year.
There is no way that any edition or amendment of BS7671 is ever going to say earlier editions or amendments had unsafe requirements.
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