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Electrical Switchboard Safety/Rubber Matting
DESCRIPTION
Electrically resistant Switchboard Rubber Matting is manufactured from a high quality rubber compound to the most exacting standards. It is an essential safety product designed to protect life where there is exposure to live conductors.
APPLICATIONS
The Factories Acts require the provision of permanent insulation to prevent danger from shock to persons employed in the generation, transformation, distribution or use of electrical energy. Switchboard Rubber Safety Matting is the recommended safety floor covering for switchboards, sub-stations, transformers, generators and electrical work benches. In temporary applications portable electrical rubber safety mats should be used.
SERVICE INFORMATION
The normal grade is suitable for most applications but special compounds are available for oil and acid resistance. If joins are unavoidable when laying Switchboard rubber safety matting the pieces should butt together with no gaps between.
Rubber safety matting shall have a minimum width of 900mm to accord with the Regulations concerning the minimum width of a working platform or passageway associated with a switchboard on which there are exposed live conductors (for voltages up to 650). If the Regulations do not apply the same width is recommended.
It is stressed that switchboard rubber safety matting should not afford the sole means of protection* for those working on electrical circuits and wherever possible further adequate precautions should be taken against the risk of shock and short-circuit. In this connection attention is drawn to the Electricity (Factories Act) Special Regulations 1908 and 1944.
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
Colour: Black / Top Surface: Fine flutes along length / Under surface: Non slip, cloth impression finish / Width: 915mm & 1220mm / Length: Cut to length = Min 1 metre / Max 11.5m
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