To avoid accidents caused by site workers using unauthorised knives, ABB is issuing special stripping tools to employees and partners.
ABB has donated a number of cable stripping tools to Grosvenor Power Services, one of its installation partners, having banned the use of Stanley-type knives for multicore cable stripping on all its construction sites.
A multicore stripping tool has been selected that will work very well on around 80 per cent of all site cables. Twenty of these tools are being provided initially for use on the Stalybridge contract, a contract to replace a major substation serving Manchester.