Electrical instalations

CENELEC 64 a/b
ELECTRICAL INSTALATIONS AND PROTECTION AGAINST ELECTRIC SHOCK

Electrical installation in European private houses is a large market where small and micro enterprises are very active and where they often cover more than 80% of the market.

The normative situation in the EU member states is still very heterogeneous. Different rules and standards still apply in this sector, which need to be coordinated in order to assure safety to users and workers, but one is still far from a complete harmonisation. CENELEC TC 64, already active since many years, is trying to provide harmonised standards for electrical installations.

Mr Giulio Dall’Olio is NORMAPME’s expert appointed jointly by CONFARTIGIANATO and CNA, which represent together the biggest share of Italian electrical installers and have a long record of activities in the electrical sector. Mr Dall’Olio, electrical engineer, who runs his own engineering consultancy company, is already a member of the Italian mirror committee.

As the standardization activities of CENELEC are divided into several technical bodies, and one expert is often not enough to follow them, NORMAPME nominated both Mr Sebastiano Toffaletti, from its permanent staff and Mr Giulio Dall’Olio as representative experts. They are both members of TC 64 “Electrical installations and protection against electric shock”, SC 64A “Electrical installations and protection against electric shock” and SC 64B “Electrical installations of buildings: Protection against thermal effects”.

oreover, Mr Dall’Olio is currently undertaking his registration to TC99 (Electrical substations) and TC319 (Maintenance systems and gangways). For these TCs as well as for TC64. Since May 2007 he has been an expert in the work SC64B/WG217 named “Guide for determination of cross-sectional area of conductors and selection of protective devices”. Within this group he proposed to include concrete examples of applications in the text of the standards. The convenor accepted this proposal for the next revision of the standard.