UK construction-safety guidance by the Riskora Editorial Team
Anyone planning electrical testing and commissioning on a UK site faces the same starting question: how is the work going to be controlled? More than half of fatal electrical incidents on UK sites involve work on equipment that was assumed to be isolated but was not proved dead before work began. On electrical testing and commissioning, the relevant duty is unambiguous: The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and BS 7671 require that testing is carried out by competent persons using calibrated instruments. A well-written Risk Assessment converts the legal duty into something workers, supervisors and clients can actually use on the day.
Example Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment for Electrical Testing and Commissioning — UK
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The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and BS 7671 require that testing is carried out by competent persons using calibrated instruments. GS38 specifies requirements for test probes and leads.
In the West Midlands, a project H&S lead has just won a contract that requires the same compliance pack as a tier-one main contractor — including a site-specific Risk Assessment. They walk through the guided builder, accept the suggested hazards for electrical testing and commissioning that fit, override the ones that do not, capture the project details in one pass, and send the finished document straight from Riskora to the client. The finished document explicitly addresses arc flash during live testing at distribution boards, which the principal contractor would otherwise expect to see written into the pack.
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