Tony, E54, I DO understand where you are coming from.
However, there has been a sea change in attitude.
Think drink driving, 60 years ago it was almost acceptable.
Now?
Well live working now has the same stigma.
Do I, I'll claim the American 5th Amendment I think it is known as.
Live testing is OK.
Live working does have to be risk assessed, and financial requirements are at the bottom of the list.
End of.
I had a guy on a course I was teaching last year that was in a room working on a mains intake.
All isolated, all safe, then an arc flash occurred, the guy working in the panel was engulfed in flames, his hi-vis caught fire on his back and set his clothes alight, he was "medivacced" out by air ambulance.
Why, the "other" side of the panel was live, there was swarf that had crossed the containment between compartments.
The guys working on the panels were oblivious to the danger.
They were not working live.
A tool breached the barrier, which in conjunction with the swarf caused an arc flash.
The guy just about got way with his life, as the flash occurred in a confined space.
What WAS acceptable, is no longer.
E54, I KNOW the company you worked for, and it is not acceptable there now either.
However, I do agree that the standard of training now is abysmal, IMHO, and there is nothing I can do about it even when I am called upon to deliver the odd course, I try, but 4 days is just not enough.