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For all of those talking about the legality of working live, i am surprised. No where in the regs does it say you can not work live.
What it does say is that you should work dead and only live when unreasonable in all circumstances to work dead, all ppe measures should be used when working live.
So there admittedly is a can of worms as to what constitutes “unreasonable”.
Unreasonable can relate to time/cost/safety. If you have issues safety wise from the meter onwards that are a safety concern, then you are well within your right to work live.
For instance (i have had it before ), some numpty had installed the tails the wrong way round. So everything within the installation was of a reversed polarity. Immediate code 1 for the entire installation. More practical for me to work live and change those tails around at the ccu rather than the risk to the client while waiting for a dno response (council as well so another ball ache entirely time+safety wise).
What it does say is that you should work dead and only live when unreasonable in all circumstances to work dead, all ppe measures should be used when working live.
So there admittedly is a can of worms as to what constitutes “unreasonable”.
Unreasonable can relate to time/cost/safety. If you have issues safety wise from the meter onwards that are a safety concern, then you are well within your right to work live.
For instance (i have had it before ), some numpty had installed the tails the wrong way round. So everything within the installation was of a reversed polarity. Immediate code 1 for the entire installation. More practical for me to work live and change those tails around at the ccu rather than the risk to the client while waiting for a dno response (council as well so another ball ache entirely time+safety wise).