The test device must incorporate fused test leads comply with HSE
Guidance Note 38, Electrical Test Equipment Used Electricians.
Safety First
Working ‘Live’
● NEVER work‘live’
● ALWAYS isolate first
● SECURE the isolation
● PROVE the supply‘dead’before
starting work. Connect the test device the supply which isolated; this
should indicate mains voltage.11 is
used prove conductors dead, Regulation 4(3) EWR 1989 recommends
that the following procedure should adopted that the device itself is
‘proved’:
FIGURE 1.28
Basic Electrical Installation Work
is first switched off.11
Typical voltage indicator. Isolate the supply and observe that the test device now reads 0V.
3. Connect the test device another source supply ‘prove’ that
the device still working correctly. Every circuit must provided with means isola-
tion (Regulation 132.10) and you should isolate and lock off before work
begins. Lock off the supply and place warning notices.
1. Only then should
work commence the ‘dead’ supply.
2. 1. Where
a test instrument voltage indicator such that shown Fig.
Electrical isolation supplies further discussed Chapter of
this book.
4. order deter anyone from reconnecting the supply, ‘Danger
Electrician Work’ sign should displayed the isolation switch.
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