£30k fine for landlords who do not provide a valid EICR for their rental properties

Z, If you contract to do an EICR, you have no permission to do anything else. If you charge for any other work, you are not entitled to payment. I know you worry about some unsuspecting plumber, but any proper plumber will not go near cables without due care. We are all careful that we may come across danger, hopefully, throughout life in all its events, not only work. You seem to want to operate as a minder of everyone else, arguably something which is now expected by the young. Learning to deal with potentially dangerous situations is part of life, true a small number fail to learn and even die, but that is the learning process.  The level of danger from this kind of problem is vanishingly small, as is the risk to everyone from using electricity. The biggest danger from electricity is appliances, causing danger from fire. We have systems in place which keep everyone as safe as possible within reason.


Compare this with motorcycles, and bicycles. Many more people are injured and killed using these than are, due to electricity. Why are these not banned, and the resulting lives saved and injury prevented? The has to be a balance in all things, and the balance is probably about right for electricity, if not tending to be excessively careful.

Z, If you contract to do an EICR, you have no permission to do anything else. If you charge for any other work, you are not entitled to payment. I know you worry about some unsuspecting plumber, but any proper plumber will not go near cables without due care. We are all careful that we may come across danger, hopefully, throughout life in all its events, not only work. You seem to want to operate as a minder of everyone else, arguably something which is now expected by the young. Learning to deal with potentially dangerous situations is part of life, true a small number fail to learn and even die, but that is the learning process.  The level of danger from this kind of problem is vanishingly small, as is the risk to everyone from using electricity. The biggest danger from electricity is appliances, causing danger from fire. We have systems in place which keep everyone as safe as possible within reason.


Compare this with motorcycles, and bicycles. Many more people are injured and killed using these than are, due to electricity. Why are these not banned, and the resulting lives saved and injury prevented? The has to be a balance in all things, and the balance is probably about right for electricity, if not tending to be excessively careful.