you can avoid most of the liability by having building maintanance replace the panel cover.
dan
taylor group
investi..._at_government-security.com wrote:
Excellent suggestions, thanks!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James M. Atkinson"
> To: "TSCM-L"
> Subject: [TSCM-L] Thermal Camera Safety Check
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:23:13 -0500
>
>
>
>
> Anytime you are performing a TSCM inspection always pull the cover
> off of the circuit breaker panel that services the area which you
> are inspecting, and visually check the inside box for any kind of
> eavesdropping device, but also check the box for any kind of RF,
> Video, or Carrier Current riding on
any of the wiring (do this
> extremely carefully).
>
> Then, take your thermal viewer and look at the front of each
> breaker, and then the side of each breaker where the wire goes into
> the breaker and is secured. Also check the main lug where all of
> the power panel, the neutral rail, and finally the ground
> connection. Finish the inspection by viewing the first few feet of
> electrical as it leaves the box as well.
>
> If you do not have a full-fledged thermal viewer/camera then at
> least use a small digital thermometer to see if you have any hot
> breakers.
>
> Since you have to get into the breaker panels to inspect for bugs,
> or at least SHOULD be getting into the breaker panels to look for
> bugs you have a responsibility to the client to observe safety
> related problems in regards to the things that you touch during
> your inspection. If
you touch the breaker panel, and you end up
> being the last person to touch the breakers just prior to their
> house/office going up in flame you are going to have some issues.
>
> ALWAYS, check the client breakers with a some kind of thermal
> imaging device if you touch the breaker panel at all. However, this
> assumes that the client has engaged you for enough time to perform
> a proper TSCM inspection and that they don't have you scheduled for
> a day or less for the whole building.
>
> Also, use an ultrasonic stethoscope to listen for any arcing from
> the breakers, but don't get too close to the breakers as most
> ultrasonic probes are conductive or quasi-conductive you don't want
> to use the probe to create a path to ground for 240 volts or more.
> If you do have also breakers you will clearly hear then in the
> headphones of the ultrasonic stethoscope. On a
related note, it is
> pretty easy to build an ultrasonic probe for the CPM-700, so if
> your technically gifted and don't mind spending $25 in parts you
> can build your own. [Hint, for optimal performance take the output
> the ultrasonic probe, and use it to modulate a 50 MHz carrier,
> which you then feed into the CPM-700 antenna jack].
>
> Should you observe any fault wiring or breakers you are duty bound
> to inform the customer of this, and of the safety implications of
> the problem.
>
> You should also keep a record in the form of some kind of hard-copy
> of the video of what you find and attach it to the report, and if
> possible see if the electrician left his label/card/sticker on the
> panel so you know to be extra suspicion of his/their work in the
> future.
>
> -jma
>
>
>
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