ELECTRICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

JRL Solutions Ltd helps employers meet their obligations under legislation to carry out a risk assessment with reference to electrical safety.  The appropriate legislation is the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989. The risk assessment should be carried out by a competent person.

Poor standards of electrical safety often result in fatalities.

The purpose of an electrical risk assessment is to:-

• Identify significant hazards
• Identify persons at risk including specific persons at greater risk
• Evaluate risk in terms of likelihood and consequence, decide if risk is managed adequately and if not make recommendations to manage the risk better
• Record the significant findings
• Be reviewed at appropriate intervals

A hierarchy of control is used in evaluating the effectiveness of control, which includes :-

• Technical control
• Procedural/Organisational control
• Behavioural control

In carrying out electrical risk assessment it is necessary to consider both fixed electrical systems and portable electrical equipment taking into account the following:-

• Systems, work activities and protective equipment
• Strength and capability of electrical equipment
• Adverse or hazardous environments
• Insulation, protection and placing of conductors
• Earthing or other suitable precautions
• Integrity of referenced conductors
• Connections
• Means for protecting from excess current
• Means for cutting off the supply and for isolation
• Precautions for equipment made dead
• Work on or near live conductors
• Working space, access and lighting
• Persons to be competent to prevent danger and injury

JRL Solutions Ltd caries out electrical risk assessment using its comprehensive electrical risk assessment format.