EGN10 - Safe Working with Live or Powered Equipment

 

The Requirements and Guidance provided here set safety standards for those who carry out maintenance or alignment work on equipment which is live / powered. These Requirements and Guidance cover broadcast electronic / electrical equipment; they do not cover work on wiring installations. They apply to maintenance engineers, technicians, project engineers and broadcast engineers in all areas of the BBC, whatever Division.

 

The equipment covered by these Requirements and Guidance will vary widely and will be found as:

 

Typical work being carried out will involve removing covers to : access internal controls to make adjustments to optimise performance; take measurements with test equipment to determine the cause of fault conditions, and carry out work to repair the fault. The equipment could be a camera, video mixer, sound desk, monitor, receiver, video or audio tape recorder, CD player, DTT Multiplexer, PC or server. In fact, any item of electrical equipment found in broadcasting.

 

The Requirements and Guidance given here therefore apply to a very large range of equipment used in BBC undertakings. It will apply to BBC employees, and to Partners and Contractors to the BBC.

 

These Requirements and Guidance do not apply however to:

 

but will apply to equipment which may have high voltage, low current supplies such as monitors with 25 to 30kV EHT.

 

These Requirements and Gudiance replace all previous Corporate safety documentation with regard to live working on powered equipment, issued by BBC Safety or by the former Engineering Management Safety Committee. It does not however, replace documents issued at Divisional or Departmental level, although such documents must neither conflict with nor set standards which are not as rigorous as those given here.

 

A checklist in "Related Forms" can be used to help assess compliance with these Requirements.

 

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