SR EN 61219:1998

Live working. Earthing or earthing and short-circuiting equipment using lances as a short-circuiting device. Lance earthing

Applies to equipment for temporary earthing or earthing and short-circuiting of electrically isolated parts of a.c. installations, the disconnection of which has been verified, for the protection of workers while work is in progress using lance(s) as the earthing or earthing and short-circuiting device. Specifies the perfomance and safety requirements and tests for lance devices with matching fixed contacts, guiding arrangements, enclosure, insulating elements and earthing cables, if any. For devices containing short-circuiting cables see EN 61230.

General information

Status : Valid
Approval date : 9/18/1997
Publish date : 3/1/1998
Number of pages : 36
ICS : 13.260 Protection against electric shock. Live working,29.120.50 Fuses and other overcurrent protection device
Technical Committee : 176 - Equipment and tools for live working

Relations with other standards:

Normative reference SR EN 61230:1997
Normative reference SR CEI 60479-1:1995