Proposed Changes: 18th Ed, Due July 2018

[securespark]

http://www.intersafe.co.uk/news/reg...edition-wiring-regulations-due-1st-july-2018/

 

[ericmark]

It seems to just repeat what was said in Wiring Matters

 

[securespark]

Ah.

Ahem.

Errr...

I didn't see that!

 

[flameport]

Draft version allegedly available for comments from 24 May (next week).
Here: https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/45ff73619910dcfa83208ba39773f4df
Click on the boxes at the right side to see provisional dates for various stages.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Is it just me, or do other people wonder if this might be a good colour scheme for the cover?

 

[securespark]

It'll follow convention:

Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Brown.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Is it just me, or do other people wonder if this might be a good colour scheme for the cover?

Maybe one of these on there too?

 

[ericmark]

Until Part P I don't think anyone was worried about what was in the wiring regulations, yes it was an easy way to write a contract, to follow BS7671 unless written permission is given to deviate was an easy way to write a contract, but it was not law, and you didn't have to follow it. However when Part P came in scheme members signed a legal document with the scheme providers to say the would follow the regulations.

In the 1970's one rarely saw a copy of the wiring regulations, the boss may have had one in the office, if you asked to look at it, you were quizzed as to why. It was early 90's before anyone seemed to worry about what was in it. With the 16th we saw colleges starting to run courses often with in house exams on how to read. When the 17th came out many electricians were dismayed to find their qualification did not allow them to sit the cut down version of the test, as it was college issued not C&G.

It was not only electrical qualifications which were affected, nearly every hire company would issue their own certificates on all sorts like driving a cherry picker, now they are all nationally controlled. Even the national controlled tests have changed, my motor cycle licence was obtained with one single test.

So today what is in the regulations controls our life, without them we would still be using the Wilex fuse box, it was the regulations which forced us to move to RCD protected metal consumer units. However when you start looking at statistics it is hard to write a risk assessment which would result in such a stringent set of regulations.

They are the long term stats. for deaths from 1950 to 2013 caused by electric shocks in the home.

They show a steady Climb from 1950 of about 38 deaths to 1972 of 70 deaths with another peak of about 73 deaths in 1963.

From 1972 there is a steady decline to 3 in 2013.

The decline is quite pronounced with a steady climb up to 1972 and a steady decline from that date.

Compare that to natural deaths by lighting and your more likely to be electrocuted out of the home than in it. I know one death is one too many, but we have gone OTT with all health and safety regulations to the point where people expect not to need to take care, they think if there was a danger it would not be allowed, the number of people who think they can't get a shock because it has a RCD is silly.

 

[Risteard]

It'll follow convention:

Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Brown.

I thought that too, but rumour has it that it mightn't and that instead it will be blue (but a lighter blue than the traditional one).

 

[ban-all-sheds]

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