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ELECTRICAL SAFETY


attended to, the NCFF code provides a record that the danger has been made safe.


Code LIM (Limitation)


The electrical inspection condition report includes a statement on the ‘Extent of the installation and limitations of the inspection and testing’, which covers specific areas that have prior agreed limitations. However, during testing, individual circuits often cannot be fully tested, and in these cases, we find it useful to set the code to LIM if further investigation is not required. The LIM should be accompanied by an explanation of the reason for the limitation in the inspection and testing. Our observation is that ‘LIMs’, which are not included in the extent of the installation statement, are recorded without explanation. Excessive use of LIM codes on circuits will reduce the test coverage.


Based on the observations and recommendations, an overall assessment of the installation in terms of its suitability for continued use is provided, in ‘binary’ terms: ‘Satisfactory’ or ‘Unsatisfactory’. The notes accompanying each electrical installation condition report provide guidance to the electrician for determining the overall assessment – if there are any observations with codes C1, C2, or FI, the overall condition of the installation should be reported as ‘unsatisfactory’ (Fig. 3).


Risk of ‘ambiguous’ text In our experience, while the text accompanying the observations often makes sense when it is written, on review at a later date, where the context is no longer clear, it can be ambiguous. To address this potential pitfall, test engineers neeed to bear in mind that there may be hundreds of observations and recommendations across a large hospital estate that need to be addressed; thus careful recording of the description, location, and supporting information and ‘evidence’ – for instance photographs, accompanied by clear recommendations –


Certificate description


Tower Block, 3rd floor, Riser A –


condition report Essential information


for electrical compliance


Condition report northwest


RCD testing DL for CR


Periodic inspection – EIC


Testing 5 May 2015


Periodic testing 4th floor, Area 2


Creation date


Status Overall assessment


08/09/2015 Signed Unsatisfactory original


21/08/2015 Signed Unsatisfactory original


16/07/2015 Signed Satisfactory original


22/10/2016 Signed Unsatisfactory original


16/04/2016 Signed Unsatisfactory original


05/05/2015 Signed Satisfactory original


17/08/2015


Signed Unsatisfactory original


Actions required


2 20 0 3 3 0 5


Figure 4: The EDIS electrical certificate report allows managers to easily track the certificate details, assessment, and outstanding remedial works. It provides a list of all certificates, the assessment, and actions. The EDIS electrical compliance management system provides the workflows that will automate reports for tracking the certificate status, assessments, and actions required.


need to be provided so that another engineer can easily plan the work to locate and remediate the issue or issues identified.


Key elements of accompanying text Our suggestion for improving the observations and recommendations is that the text of each observation should include, at the very least, the following elements: (a) the distribution board reference, and, if relevant, the circuit reference, (b) location, (c) a headline or category of the issue, (d) a full description of the issue, and (e) a clear


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recommendation, and (f) if appropriate, a photograph. In this way the information will provide an unambiguous and convenient way to group the remedial work into work packages based on the nature of the work and the location. Figure 4 is a screenshot of an EDIS report that allows managers to easily track the certificate details, assessment, and outstanding remedial works.


Even after completion of the inspection, testing, and remedial works, the building may still not be deemed compliant if the test coverage is not acceptable. We regularly see that certificates have many


Even after completion of the inspection, testing, and remedial works, the building may still not be deemed compliant if the test coverage is not acceptable


June 2020 Health Estate Journal 31


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