Another Safety Lighting Issue

There is a recently-remodeled area upstairs with a hallway connecting two locker rooms (Men and Women).

The lamps are all burned out in the hallway, all seven fixtures...and most of the lamps in the locker rooms.

It's daylight out, so you can still see pretty well. At night, it's unsafe.

TT and I had located ballasts and lamps for a previous job, along with the associated parts.

Starting in the 2002 NEC code with 410.130(G) and revised since then, you must have a "means of disconnect" for ballasts and/or the fixture (with a few exceptions listed).

Like this, about $1 apiece:

Don't think you cant get hurt working on 120V. It can and will kill you if it gets the chance. Dirty bugger it is.

Here's a nice, quick video on the subject;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osEr7SjVWlQ
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So, TT and I recycled all the dozens of ballasts and a hundred or so old lamps laying on this cart (God forbid an Apprentice would have done such a thing...) and prepping it for the job, as soon as the Work Order comes through. The rest of the day I'll be working on my "My Learning" training. The three-hour Electrical safety (section 1 only) is on the list. Seems like I'd just done this last year.

Oh, yeah. It was last year!