Maintained emergency light replacement

[burgensteen]

Hi all,

Could anyone advise as to the legal requirement regarding replacing a maintained emergency light bulkhead. Does it have to be a certified electrician or can a 'competent' person do the replacement.

PS: this is in an accessible toilet in a rented commercial property.

Thanks for any help.

 

[chivers67]

Like for like change surely, so competent as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Astra99]

In my opinion, emergency lighting is just "normal" lighting, but with an extra permanent live connection, and a battery! Thus anyone who can connect four wires (including earth) in the right places without making things go bang should be able to do it.

 

[ericmark]

Ordinary, Instructed, Skilled and historically Competent are levels of skill, competent has now been dropped from the regulations it did mean the person was better than a skilled person in that they could look after the safety of others as well as them selves. There is nothing which actually defines an electrician so if you can swap the fitting then there is no legal reason why you should not.

Except for insurance, with commercial premises often the insurance insists the person is employed as an electrician, although I had worked for the same company as an electrician for 8 years, to give me a pay rise they gave me title of foreman mechanic, then the boss found as a result insurance did not cover for me doing work on 230 volt stuff without having some one officially employed as an electrician, it was funny when often the guy coming with me to the job did not have a clue how to repair the item, and simply stood and watched, but that got around the insurance problem.

Many places use the multi-skilled label to get around this. But it's not a question of regulations but insurance.