We've recently moved a large dynamic balancing machine in work and the company intends to get an outside spark in to reconnect it.
The labourer has been told to dig a trench 4" wide by 2" deep to lay the cable in and then fill over with a sand/cement mixture. The cable is 4 core armoured, (3 phase+neutral), approximately 6sqmm per core, may be 4sqmm but I think its 6.
To my mind 2" is nowhere deep enough unless its also covered by some sort of steel capping.
Are there any regs to cover this situation? The length of cuts, (there are 2 short sections as it runs in steel conduit behind a lathe for the better part), are about 3' and 5' if that helps. Its isolated via a 32A rotary switch isolater and a 32A mcb in the distribution board, no RCD in the circuit.
The labourer has been told to dig a trench 4" wide by 2" deep to lay the cable in and then fill over with a sand/cement mixture. The cable is 4 core armoured, (3 phase+neutral), approximately 6sqmm per core, may be 4sqmm but I think its 6.
To my mind 2" is nowhere deep enough unless its also covered by some sort of steel capping.
Are there any regs to cover this situation? The length of cuts, (there are 2 short sections as it runs in steel conduit behind a lathe for the better part), are about 3' and 5' if that helps. Its isolated via a 32A rotary switch isolater and a 32A mcb in the distribution board, no RCD in the circuit.