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00:00 Electrical News Weekly 12th August 2024
00:34 Contracting firm fined after death of teenage apprentice
01:45 Trade reacts to proposed amendment 4
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36 Comments
Adrenaline and Apricot
10k That's a crime!
Adrenaline/apricot
Adrenaline and Apricot
In my time it was bad luck.
10k fine is astonishing, surely the company had a director or at least site Forman who should be in jail
Adrenaline and apricot
Apricot and Campari
I feel extremely sorry for this young man as electrocution is one of the most terrible and horrific ways to die. The devastation his family and friends are suffering is life changing for them.
3 yrs later, £10k fine…
Adrenaline, apricot
Adrenaline, evergreen
Condolences to the family and friends of the electrician who tragically died😢
Adrenaline & texture
Going for apricot jam this week! Yum
I thought only 3 amendments were allowed per edition?
When are the dangerous and pointless ring circuits finally going to be banned?
Hi Joe, great information as always Apricot & Adrenaline 😊
Adrenaline and apricot
apricot and adrenaline , And 10k is a joke , that needs a few 0s on it
Adrenaline Apricot
Obviously the apprentice was not told how to prove conductors dead or did know, but omitted to test them anyway.
Adrenaline and apricot
Why on earth are they trying to mess around with ethernet data cabling in amendment 4?
Was the word you slipped in dried apricot
£10k fine is that all? That does not cover the cost of a life at all!
A „fine“ of only £10k for Mr. Newell's death, which could easily have been prevented by having a safe system of work/supervision in place? What the fc🇬🇧 is wrong with this country?!?!? 😠
I suffered significant incapacitating injuries to mental health as a signals apprentice at London Underground/TfL, and though not nearly as physically fatal as the tragedy of Mr. Newell, the psychological impact on myself and others around me has been extremely severe, not at all helped by the transport industrys complete neglect of duty of care toward its industrially invalided members throughout the time since. 🙅
For certain; The cost to the State in terms of incapacity and other benefits justified by workplace PTSD and a complete inability to return to the working environment – Money that TfL should be paying out, not the Taxpayer – Has well passed the £10k mark by this point. But sadly, when your own family throw you out because you've been incapacitated from the workplace, absolutely nobody gives a brexit💩anymore… 🇬🇧♿⛔🤔
As an apprentice in the late 60s, I and another apprentice were told to remove instruments (voltmeters, ammeters, power factor meters, etc.) from a redundant control panel. The other guy received a shock and the panel turned out to be still live at 110V dc. Neither of us had been given any training on the safety rules.
Luckily things changed for the better and in the 80s, the safety rules were much more stringent. Having identified some relays in a generator control panel that required maintenance, but were impossible to isolate, I had to write a non-standard procedure for live (485V dc) disconnection, have it peer reviewed and printed as a work specification. A Limited Work Certificate was then issued to carry out the work.
It took several weeks to arrange all this, but the work was carried out safely, no engineers or electricians being harmed!
10 fucking grand absolute Disgrace
should be a 10kV fine
Fined??? Wtf why aren't people going to prison???? That is beyond fked up
😢I myself would be left off on my own after 6 months, 17 and got a few mild shocks over the years, we were even working on Live fittings as they were in likes of banks etc and they wouldn't allow to be shut off.
Very sad and condolences to that young mans family and friends.
At 18 I knew how to check for live wires before working on any electrical circuit. The reason was my Father was a notorious DIY man, and did Gas and Electrical work he was not trained for, paint to seal gas threads, for instance. I also had a mate who thought he was immune from high voltage shocks, holding both conductors in each hand at fifty amps load! His Father owned an electrical motor manufacturing company, too.
What sort of idiot electrician doesn't teach an apprentice to test before touching?
10K ? Unsupervised ?. WTF ??????????????????????????????????????? HSE WHERE ARE YOU?????. O YER NOT ONE OF YOU ARE ELECTRICIANS LOL. STATE UNI SHILLS £100.000+
£10,000…? That's absolutely appalling. I don't know what the guidelines permit, but I would have thought something like £100k minimum for a small business and up to £10M for larger companies. The penalty needs to be a deterrent, not just the change down the back of the corporate sofa.