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Details of BS7671:2018 Amendment 1 are here.

Alan Capon
Details of Amendment 1 of BS7671:2018 is available here: https://electrical.theiet.org/bs-7671/updates/


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    mapj1:

    that is not to be confused with spending £10 on each of 30 million households, to prevent a death in just one of them




    I agree, which is why I said the real cost was in between. To complicate the matter further you also have to estimate the number of potential deaths over the life of the installations rather than the number of deaths per year as you have done, both of which are impossible to do as we have no historical data to extrapolate from. I suspect your 10 lives a year is too high, and as for how often houses are rewired, your guess is as good as mine (actually, your guess is probably better than mine). I think 30 million households is a bit high and not every household has a car, but the figure is lower than the number of cars, so who knows....


    The issue is not will the money save more lives if spent elsewhere, as the answer to that is nearly always going to be "yes". The issue is whether it is worth spending the money here - money spent elsewhere to save lives should be spent as well as, not instead of.


    Alasdair

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    mapj1:

    that is not to be confused with spending £10 on each of 30 million households, to prevent a death in just one of them




    I agree, which is why I said the real cost was in between. To complicate the matter further you also have to estimate the number of potential deaths over the life of the installations rather than the number of deaths per year as you have done, both of which are impossible to do as we have no historical data to extrapolate from. I suspect your 10 lives a year is too high, and as for how often houses are rewired, your guess is as good as mine (actually, your guess is probably better than mine). I think 30 million households is a bit high and not every household has a car, but the figure is lower than the number of cars, so who knows....


    The issue is not will the money save more lives if spent elsewhere, as the answer to that is nearly always going to be "yes". The issue is whether it is worth spending the money here - money spent elsewhere to save lives should be spent as well as, not instead of.


    Alasdair

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