And if the apprentice had died from his carelessness, not good enough.Everyone is under the pump, times money these days.
Electrician working for Mandurah company fined after unsupervised apprentice suffers electric shock
An electrician has been fined $3000 after an apprentice he was meant to be supervising received an electric shock.www.917thewave.com.au
I was going to write something similar. Small business is getting hammered by compliance costs and bills. I've heard a lot of complaints recently.A friend of mine worked for Telstra, about 15 years ago he got a payout to leave, and with the money purchased a Cartridge World with his brother. The location is excellent, and business was good.
Not so good lately. They are covering costs but not pulling much of a wage. Prices of everything keep going up, including electricity and government red tape. They can't pass on all the costs, because of online competition from OS. And if they wanted to sell, they'd get virtually nothing because banks aren't lending a lot for business.
He has taken a part time job at the airport, working 16 hours per week to supplement his income. The pay is good, and if he wanted he could work another 16 hours in overtime.
I wonder how many more small business owners are doing this.
The economy is being hammered by poor productivity across every industry and every state.
Our taxes are too high, because it is wasted on thought bubbles. Business is forced to comply with ever greater government regulations, and now the unions are getting involved. Family businesses face ‘union delegate’ threat under new IR legislation
How much more can the economy take?
Everyone is under the pump, times money these days.
Electrician working for Mandurah company fined after unsupervised apprentice suffers electric shock
An electrician has been fined $3000 after an apprentice he was meant to be supervising received an electric shock.www.917thewave.com.au
@IFocus so a life is worth ?????????????????????????Complete hanging offence these days, even 15 years ago, as a 3rd year apprentice stopped counting at 14 shocks bragging rights only if you got hung up on 3 phase (luckily I never did) but then men died on the job SECWA budgeted for 3 dead linesmen a year.
Regularly would meet linesmen with HV burns somewhere on their body.
1980 / 81 SECWA sacked the safety department and started to get serious about people not dying at work... true story.
250v is a shock, but you need quite nasty circumstances to die of it.@IFocus so a life is worth ?????????????????????????
For me Mr frog not being a sparky and quite literally not wishing to test the wires to see if they are live, I always have the power turned off if any work in an electrical nature is being undertaken here on the farm.250v is a shock, but you need quite nasty circumstances to die of it.
I probably got 20 to 40 "shocks" in my life so far in France and here.
I always assume everything is hot and use a phase tester.
But i have had times where i have worked on life wire purposedly..not to reset clock, etc
I believe the Australian culture , lack of knowledge and regulations has made people afraid of power, and unaware of actual real dangers....
Anyway..
all very good BUT get a tester as well , even if only a screwdriver with a bulb/fuse inside ,I always have the power turned off if any work in an electrical nature is being undertaken here on the farm.
It's not the voltage but the amps that kill you especially if it goes from one hand to the other across your heart.250v is a shock, but you need quite nasty circumstances to die of it.
I probably got 20 to 40 "shocks" in my life so far in France and here.
I always assume everything is hot and use a phase tester.
But i have had times where i have worked on life wire purposedly..not to reset clock, etc
I believe the Australian culture , lack of knowledge and regulations has made people afraid of power, and unaware of actual real dangers....
Anyway..
Yep, that's true, your flexor muscles contract when you get a current going through them.tell me if this is true for not.... random test, use the back of the hand rather than normal frontal touch; muscles will tighten and hand moves away, whereas the other way, contact is extended through involuntary grip. ... = more amps. ??
i was taught back in the dim, dark ages , to test with back of the hand , and theory was the contraction of the muscles and flexes the arm away from danger ( a NASTY burn is possible , but less chance of a fatal event )tell me if this is true for not.... random test, use the back of the hand rather than normal frontal touch; muscles will tighten and hand moves away, whereas the other way, contact is extended through involuntary grip. ... = more amps. ??
I had a fair few shocks from the electric fence. VERY high volts but very low amps, still gives you a hell of a kick.
Enough to know I never want to get belted with the mains
Yes true arounds 16 milliamps is the threshold when you cannot let go and across the heart muscle, fibrillation... deadtell me if this is true for not.... random test, use the back of the hand rather than normal frontal touch; muscles will tighten and hand moves away, whereas the other way, contact is extended through involuntary grip. ... = more amps. ??
@IFocus so a life is worth ?????????????????????????
The phase tester is a screw driver with a small light allowing you to detect hot or not wires.For me Mr frog not being a sparky and quite literally not wishing to test the wires to see if they are live, I always have the power turned off if any work in an electrical nature is being undertaken here on the farm.
We had a sparky some years ago fiddling around in the kitchen fixing one of th recessed lights.
His way to test if it was live or not was to stick a screwdriver into the socket.
That's when the power got turned off.
Safe and not sorry.
Tractor PTOs, angle grinders and suchlike.The phase tester is a screw driver with a small light allowing you to detect hot or not wires.
It looks like putting a screw driver in a plug.
High voltage is a different story, as are capacitors etc
There are real dangers, or being on a ladder, etc.
If you do not know, stay away and safe...
But your chainsaw or car is a bigger risk..
You are onto something, you have to make sure you do not freeze into contact.tell me if this is true for not.... random test, use the back of the hand rather than normal frontal touch; muscles will tighten and hand moves away, whereas the other way, contact is extended through involuntary grip. ... = more amps. ??
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