"J Barron" wrote in message
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EricP wrote:
If the caretaker has the appropriate electrical qualifications and is
approved to do the work.

Are electrical qualifications necessary to run an extension lead in
trunking back to a socket?

Depends which LEA you are in. Here trailing leads, are out. Covering
them compounds it because you introduce trip hazards into the
equation. You really have no choice in following the laid down path
and apply for a solution to the problem down the proper channels.

I appreciate the dangers with training leads, but they wouldn't be used in
this case. We planned on running a 5m extension from the projector on the
ceiling back to a wall socket (in trunking). Does this break any
regulations?

Just which bit of 'get the LEA to tell you how the work needs to be done and
by whom' don't you understand?

Put it another way. If a child died as a result of your actions your only
safety net would be 'I followed correct procedure and I have the paperwork
to prove it' Without that where would you be?

It really does not matter what anyone on this newsgroup thinks would or
would not be ok. It is what the current regulations of your LEA say that
count

By the time I left teaching some years ago teaching staff were not even
allowed to wire or rewire a plug on any piece of equipment to be used in the
building (and some were actually teaching pupils how to wire plugs as an
approved part of the curriculum)

Any extension lead used in the building had to have an annual safety check
by an approved company along with every other piece of electrical equipment
in the building.

Tony