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The findings have led to calls for a higher level of competency within the electrotechnical sector and raised questions about the government’s move to expand the current regulations.

Electrical distribution fires occur within the fixed electrical parts of a home such as wiring and fuse boards. There were 3953 of these in 2021 across the UK, in comparison to the 3000 recorded in 2005 when the government introduced Part P of the Building Regulations in England and Wales.

Electrical distribution fires in UK dwellings

Electrical distribution fires have increased over the last thirty years

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The regulations state that anyone carrying out electrical installation work in a home must make sure that the work is designed and installed to protect people from fire and electric...

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  • Well I read it as implying  part P should never have have introduced in the way it was, and it failed to achieve its objective. We have more paperwork and perhaps more traceability but less folk out there just fixing stuff before it goes wrong..  We know that it removed from the pool of cheaper labour someexperienced folk who maybe were approaching retirement, or operated in a small way that made registration uneconomic. That probably in turn meant that at the small jobs /pub electrician end of the market this left more of the less conscientious. Also perhaps the increase in the cost of small jobs that may have been borderline DIY  being put off until never. If that is the reason, it is not without parallel - there was a slight but statistically significant reduction in accidents in New Zealand relative to Australia after they re-permitted certain types of DIY wiring in the 1990s.

    There is a cost to regulation that requires a paper trail, if only the labout time lost to complying with it.

    Mike

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  • Well I read it as implying  part P should never have have introduced in the way it was, and it failed to achieve its objective. We have more paperwork and perhaps more traceability but less folk out there just fixing stuff before it goes wrong..  We know that it removed from the pool of cheaper labour someexperienced folk who maybe were approaching retirement, or operated in a small way that made registration uneconomic. That probably in turn meant that at the small jobs /pub electrician end of the market this left more of the less conscientious. Also perhaps the increase in the cost of small jobs that may have been borderline DIY  being put off until never. If that is the reason, it is not without parallel - there was a slight but statistically significant reduction in accidents in New Zealand relative to Australia after they re-permitted certain types of DIY wiring in the 1990s.

    There is a cost to regulation that requires a paper trail, if only the labout time lost to complying with it.

    Mike

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