PEI PES PAV and electrical work

PEI PES PAV and electrical work

During the activities, we find that the PEI PES PAV definition for activities resulting from electrical work is not so clear.

Let's try to clarify things and give our contribution below:

Legislative Decree 81/08 in art. 82, paragraph 1 states:

“… the execution of work on live parts must be entrusted to workers recognized by the employer as suitable for this activity according to the indications of the relevant technical regulations”.

To begin with, we define electrical work as "an intervention on systems or appliances with access to the active parts (live or not) in which, if safety measures are not adopted, there is an electrical risk".

In particular, we can distinguish 3 types of "live electrical work":

• Live work: every time the worker reaches, with a part of the body or with a tool (insulator or conductor), a certain distance from accessible live parts.
• Work in the vicinity of live parts: when the worker accesses, with a part of the body or with a tool (insulator or conductor), a certain distance from accessible live parts. For this type of work it is necessary to adopt particular precautions against electrical risk (those adopted in the case of de-energized electrical work are not sufficient).
• Off-line work: work on electrical systems that are not active and have no electrical charge.

We can deduce that:

– anyone who carries out electrical work must be fit to carry it out;

– anyone who carries out live electrical work must have a license from the employer for this type of activity.

The current legislation, in fact, regulates the types of electrical systems and, on the basis of these, identifies figures who can effectively carry out the work, regulating the relevant training.

Let us now define 3 categories of people who can carry out electrical work, specifying that no electrical work can be carried out by people without adequate training:

• PEI: Eligible Person. Person who has been recognized as having the technical ability to carry out specific live work;
• PES: Expert Person. A person with relevant education, knowledge and experience that enables them to analyze the risks and avoid the dangers that electricity can create;
• PAV: Warned Person. Person adequately warned by expert people to enable him to avoid the dangers that electricity can create.

To correctly evaluate which professional profile (PES, PAV or PEI) to attribute to an operator, it is necessary to refer to the following three complementary requirements: 

• education, i.e. knowledge of electrical systems, the dangers associated with it and the relevant safety regulations; 
• gained work experience, to be able to have confidence in the knowledge or otherwise of the situations characterizing one or more types of jobs and of the majority of situations, including non-recurring ones; 
• personal characteristics, those most significant from a professional point of view, such as balance, attention, precision and any other characteristic that contributes to making the operator considered reliable.

According to the CEI 11-27 standard, the attribution of the PES and PAV conditions for employees is the exclusive responsibility of the employer. 

This assignment, accompanied by an indication of the type or types of work to which it refers, must be formalized in writing within the company.

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