UK construction-safety guidance by the Riskora Editorial Team
Most of the work involved in solar pv installation is straightforward — it is the documentation that delays the start date for small contractors. Electric shock from contact with low-voltage mains can cause cardiac arrest, while contact with high-voltage equipment can cause fatal burns from arc flash even without direct contact. On solar pv installation, the relevant duty is unambiguous: The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, BS 7671, and MCS standards require risk assessments for PV installation. The right Risk Assessment pulls all of this together — the law, the site, the people, the controls — into one document that does the job.
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Risk Assessment for Solar PV Installation — UK
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The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, BS 7671, and MCS standards require risk assessments for PV installation. The DC side of the system is live during daylight whenever panels are exposed.
On a typical UK site, a site manager has a Friday deadline for a Risk Assessment and is working evenings to get it through review — the kind of pressure most small contractors will recognise. In the Riskora builder they choose the right trade preset, remove the hazards that do not apply, add a couple of site-specific entries from the custom hazard library, and save the finished document for distribution to the team. The finished document explicitly addresses electric shock from dc voltage — pv panels cannot be isolated from sunlight, which the principal contractor would otherwise expect to see written into the pack.
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