Inspectors !!!!! Please read and comment!

[weressl]

Electrcial Inspectors what is your position on the post and comemnts:
http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?p=929990#poststop

I am especially curious how would you handle a temporary workspace that is provided on an ad-hoc basis?

1. How can you be sure that it will be properly used in the future if it is a portable platform and
2. how would you deal with: "We will build one when it is needed, but we don't have one right now?"

 

[cowboyjwc]

The answer to #1 is it won't be and the answer to #2 it is needed.

If I have one pet peeve it is working space (not 2' 11", 3 feet!), but I also don't consider it just working space. 110.26 "Sufficient access and working space....", if you need to get to it in a hurry to shut something off, you don't really have time to be setting down a temporary platform.

Yes I have seen switch gear up on a mezzanine that you needed to climb a ladder to get to and thats fine as long as it a permenant ladder and when you get up there you have the required clearance.

 

[charlie b]

I am going to close this thread, as it is nothing more than a request to take notice of another thread. We don't allow duplicates, and we don't allow comments that do nothing other than bumping a thread to the top.

If any additional inspectors, or anyone else for that matter, wishes to comment on this issue, please place your comments in the thread to which the OP placed a link in Post #1.

To the OP: if you wish to add two new questions to the discussion, then please copy them to the original thread.