[committee] Fwd: UCC 'test-and-tag'

[Mark Tearle]

On Thu, 23 May 2019, at 7:18 AM, Andrew Williams wrote:
> On 2019-05-23 1:29 PM, Timothy Chapman wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for your reply. It's very helpful to actually see the 
> > regulations you'd like us to comply with. A quick point of clarification 
> > that I feel must be made:
> > In §3.59 I see the requirement for all electrical equipment to be 
> > "tested", however I fail to see why that must specifically refer to 
> > 'test-and-tag'.
> > 
> > If you could elucidate this point it would be much appreciated,
> 
> The tagging is simply a way to verify that the equipment has actually 
> been tested - it's not like it costs extra to put a sticker on the cable.
> 
> I really don't see UCC has much choice about this - you can (and should) 
> argue about how _often_ leads and equipment need to be tested+tagged 
> (and do it before you do the test+tag, so they can put tags with the 
> right expiry date on), but there's no way you'll ever be able to get 
> away without _any_ test+tag on all the gear. The university just can't 
> allow it...
> 
> Andrew
> _______________________________________________

Agreed, UCC, the Guild and UWA must all be seen to have address their duty of care (and attended to any risk management)

Always better to be seen exceeding requirements than not meeting them.     The mechanism how we do this is a different thing ...

Mark

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Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>