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The example i gave above exemplifies the safety rhetoric we have here.

Canada shields the Main Disco in thier panels.

They put there $$$$ where thier 'safety' mouth is...

We simply blow a lot of wind about it

Bjarney,
Oh how true!!!.
Put plain and simply.

Bryan,
Over here this system is called Prove-Test-Prove.
You have to prove that your tester is working properly first.
But, I was working with a Semi-retired Electrician recently, who got a shock when he locked out the wrong circuit.
He wouldn't listen to my rantings about safety and testing, he just said that he would be retiring in 3 years and didn't have time for new stuff.
I told him, he could be in a coffin tomorrow, and man did he hate that!!.

Just an addendum to my last posting,
the Prove-Test-Prove system, encompasses our Safety Tagging system.
This means that if you see a RED hold-card attached at a switch-board or Electrical Panel, it is NOT to be removed, by ANYONE apart from the person that fitted it.
Also there is a Yellow "Out of Service" card, that is attached to relevant appliances, in an Industrial or Commercial situation, where these are faulty, this tag, may only be removed by Qualified people, after the said equipment has been repaired and suitably tested, to conform with AS/NZS 3760: Inservice testing of Appliances and Electrical Equipment.

Yep: Test -- Isolate -- Test again. Meters can go faulty, so I always want to see it registering power on an energized circuit before I take a zero reading as valid.\