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NewsPublished: 31st March, 2009

No cheating on cleating

With the first international standard for cable cleats for electrical installations just issued, is the industry ready to adopt safe practice?

“THE INTRODUCTION of IEC 61914 (2009) is a huge boost for everyone associated with cable cleats and is something that we at Ellis Patents applaud,” declares Richard Shaw, managing director of cable cleat manufacturer Ellis Patents.

“It provides global recognition of the need for secure cleating in electrical installations and, when you consider that as recently as 2003 there wasn’t even a European standard for cleats, it demonstrates just how far we’ve come in the journey towards the widespread adoption of safe cleating practice.”

Unfortunately, the journey is far from over, argues Shaw, and the new international standard simply moves the industry further down the road, rather than delivering it to a final, secure destination.
“The reason for this viewpoint has nothing to do with glasses appearing half empty but is based on the impact the European standard had when it was introduced in 2003,” claims Shaw. “In a nutshell, it failed to spark the kind of interest anticipated among specifiers and contractors, while a significant number of cleat manufacturers did little, if anything, to bring their product in line with it.”

One of the key reasons for this was that the standard was advisory rather than regulatory and that the vast majority of it was self-certifying... to read more, click here to download the full article.

Published in Electrical & Mechanical Contractor, April 2009
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