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News Release from: Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) | Subject: electrical distribution at events
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 07 April 2008
Electrical distribution law in the
events sector
Important changes to BS 7909 and BS 7671 on electrical distribution practices are set to have a big impact on the events and entertainment industries.
The newly formed AEV/ESSA Technical Committee - a working group consisting of senior event venue and supplier technical specialists - seeks to inform the events industry about important changes to BS 7909, the "Code of practice for temporary electrical distributions for entertainment and related purposes" (thus relevant to increasingly popular reusable stand wiring systems) Michael Anderson, Senior Health and Safety Manager at ECandO Venues, represented the executive on the CPW/004 panel for BS 7909, and has fed back developments at each stage
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 20 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Coupled with changes to the new edition of BS 7671 (the 17th edition of the IEE wiring regulations, or electrical 'mother' standard), these revisions probably form the biggest change to electrical distribution practices to happen to the industry.
BS 7909 is soon to be available as a 'Draft for Public Comment' (or DPC), with 7671 already available and coming into force in July.
Examples of areas where changes to 7909 have been made include: an increase in the range of events that use temporary electrical distributions; recognition of the considerable quantity and range of electrical equipment and related staff that are hired in for an event; the management of temporary electrical distributions; temporary electrical distributions have been split into 'small/simple' or 'large/complex', and are treated separately; the requirements and terminology of BS 7671 have been adopted where appropriate; the annexes have been revised and new ones have been added.
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A major development in the relationship between the two standards is that 7671 now explicitly refers the reader to 7909 where temporary electrical systems are concerned, thus removing the previous elements of confusion regarding 7671's relevance in this area.
Consequently, 7909 has been significantly reworked to bring it in line with 7671.
In today's world of increasing legislation and litigation, ignorance is no excuse.
There is a great emphasis in 7909 on managing the electrical aspects of an event appropriately.
If any event stakeholder encounters a situation where their practices are questioned, the combination of 7909 and 7671 will represent the first ports of call for the investigative authorities; they will be used as a benchmark for how things should be done.
The DPC is now shown as 'available for comment' on the BSI website.
The relevant url: www.bsigroup.com/en/Standards-and-Publications/Current-work/DPCs and the DPC reference is 08/30166535 DC.
This page gives information about DPCs available and how to obtain them, and also provides the forms needed for submitting comment.
The DPC costs GBP10 for subscribing BSI members and GBP20 for non-members.
The DPC period lasts two months from publication on 26 March.
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