Psu and pat testing

[synaesthesia]

Oddly enough I find next to all of this extremely difficult to believe. I spent a long time doing PAT testing upon training from the local NICEIC bods on recycled IT hardware. Think I might be taking a look at that HSE site

 

I for one think it needs clarifying completely for the sake of schools and us guys.

[mpe]

Oddly enough I find next to all of this extremely difficult to believe. I spent a long time doing PAT testing upon training from the local NICEIC bods on recycled IT hardware.

A lot of "elf and safety" claims do not come either from the either the 1974 act or the Health and Safety executive. It just appears to be a convenient excuse for all sorts of people to make things up.

 

Think I might be taking a look at that HSE site

IMHO everybody should. For one thing they promote the idea of "common sense".

There's also the Panorama episode "May contain nuts". Which highlights some of the utter stupidity being carried out in the name of "Health and Safety" whilst real dangers go ignored.

There are even things like leaving "caution wet floor" signs around for hours after the floor has dried actually creating a hazard. In the same way that carrying out a completly pointless PAT test then failing to put cables back correctly can cause a trip, even fire, hazard.

[synaesthesia]

And indeed the less said about people flash testing fridges and rendering brand new ones useless

[mjs_mjs]

No doubt they also have a policy that "numpties" shouldn't be messing with the equipment in the first place As for the grounding issue they probably don't understand that grounding for EMI supression is nothing to do with grounding for electrical safety. Something which can result in expensive breakages in certain situations.

 

Thing is i haven't fiddled with it. All direct from manufacture's and not modified in any way shape or form.