I broke the main fuse seal

[morqthana]

Taking a fuse out under no load is pretty safe in my opinion...

Unless the whole thing disintegrates in your hand.

 

[JohnW2]

ESQCR

Indeed. As I recently wrote, ESQCR probably brings these matters into (potentially 'criminal') law, even if nothing else does ....

I think you'll find that the contracts (which we are all deemed to have seen {by using their electricity}, even though most haven't!) cross-refer to DNO regulations, not to mention ESQCR (which is 'law').

25.—(1) No person shall make or alter a connection from a distributor’s network to a consumer’s installation, a street electrical fixture or to another distributor’s network without that distributor’s consent, unless such consent has been unreasonably withheld.

Even if that doesn't catch removing the fuse. replacing it is making a connection.

Indeed so, provided that the cutout is regarded as part of the "network" (which I suspect it may).

 

[JohnW2]

Unless the whole thing disintegrates in your hand.

True, but I think the risk of that is minimised if one heeds ...

Quite so - and provided one knows what sort of cutouts 'to go nowhere near' (which may also be true of DNO personnel!), an awful lot safer than doing things with live tails!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Indeed, if there were absolutely no risk to their personnel, then nor would there be any risk to anyone else ('competent') who did it.

That's why they are supposed to wear all that PPE.

 

[JohnW2]

That's why they are supposed to wear all that PPE.

I've never actually seen anyone wearing any more PPE than gloves (and very often not even that) when pulling a standard cutout fuse.

However, anyone doing it (whether DNO personnel or otherwise) is free to wear as much PPE (and as 'robust' PPE) as they feel appropriate or necessary.

 

[pete01]

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