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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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  • "but the increase could be partly explained by additional scrutiny prompted by the introduction of the national incident recording system (IRS) in April 2009."

    Years ago there were complaints that the fire service would often attribute a fire to electrical causes when there wasn't any obvious other cause - (charred wiring and appliances looking pretty much the same after a fire whether they caused the ignition or were just the victim of a fire started by something else in the vicinity). I do wonder if there has been a tendency to revert to old habits.

       - Andy.

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  • "but the increase could be partly explained by additional scrutiny prompted by the introduction of the national incident recording system (IRS) in April 2009."

    Years ago there were complaints that the fire service would often attribute a fire to electrical causes when there wasn't any obvious other cause - (charred wiring and appliances looking pretty much the same after a fire whether they caused the ignition or were just the victim of a fire started by something else in the vicinity). I do wonder if there has been a tendency to revert to old habits.

       - Andy.

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