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    getting caught with a hazardous live conductor in one hand and an earthed conductive part in the other!

    That's a matter of basic protection, not fault protection (or direct contact rather than indirect contact in old money) - ADS (or EEBADS) was only ever intended to provide fault protection. For basic protection you need insulation, enclosures, barriers etc.


    Additional (or supplementary) protection against direct contact can be provided by 30mA RCDs certainly - but that's regarded as something else again. (And won't protect you against all situations - e,g, an RCD would be no use at all if you had a hazardous live conductor in on hand and an earthed neutral one in the other.


      - Andy.
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    getting caught with a hazardous live conductor in one hand and an earthed conductive part in the other!

    That's a matter of basic protection, not fault protection (or direct contact rather than indirect contact in old money) - ADS (or EEBADS) was only ever intended to provide fault protection. For basic protection you need insulation, enclosures, barriers etc.


    Additional (or supplementary) protection against direct contact can be provided by 30mA RCDs certainly - but that's regarded as something else again. (And won't protect you against all situations - e,g, an RCD would be no use at all if you had a hazardous live conductor in on hand and an earthed neutral one in the other.


      - Andy.
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