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Inspectors to crack down on electrical connections on commercial buildings
Government inspectors are set this week to carry out visual inspections on commercial businesses to ensure electrical units are in keeping with regulations.
Government inspectors are set this week to start checks on commercial buildings to ensure electrical connections are in keeping with regulations.
According to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, the checks were supposed to have started yesterday in six of the 10 Regions across the country- Regions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10.
Officials from the Government’s Electrical Inspectorate – a department that falls under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) – will be checking to ensure electrical units are properly installed and insulated.
According to Joseph Peters, one of the Ministry’s Electrical Engineers, the department by law is required to carry out the inspections.
“We have to ensure that there are no electrical hazards,” Peters added.
The department’s role as the industry’s Electrical Safety Regulatory body is to protect users of electricity against the hazards of unsafe and improper electrical installation.
Further, the department, through its Maintenance Division, is tasked with carrying out routine electrical maintenance, the preparation of electrical estimates and designs, supervision of contractual works and consultation for government buildings.
There have been complaints over the years about the seeming lack of monitoring by regulators, especially for new connections.
It is no secret that persons, looking to cut costs, bypass the established procedures when it comes to hooking up power to new buildings, acquiring the certificates with relative ease.
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