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Something that has puzzled me for years.


Bayonet cap and Edison screw light bulbs can be removed without tools thus exposing potentially live terminals and presenting a distinct shock hazard.  made worse by the fact that you often need to stand on a chair to remove the bulb.   There are millions of these installed yet the regs seem quite happy with the situation.
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    Indeed so. But the standard for lamp holders is not the responsibility of the same folk who write the regs.


    You can get more expensive lamp holders that have dead pins when the bulb is removed, but most of the ones out there are not finger proof,and the safety ones are not mandatory.


    I suspect it is history,  you would not dare do it now, but you can because it has been OK, demonstrably,  for years.

    Similarly, if cars did not exist and we went to the Health and Safety folk to review a proposal for a new personal transporter  that had 25kV sparks, a hot exhaust and enough volatile fuel to put the driver into orbit stored in a single skin tank 4 inches above the road, you'd not get very far either.. But the main cause of accidents is not any of that, its concentration, or lack of.

    Mike.
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    Indeed so. But the standard for lamp holders is not the responsibility of the same folk who write the regs.


    You can get more expensive lamp holders that have dead pins when the bulb is removed, but most of the ones out there are not finger proof,and the safety ones are not mandatory.


    I suspect it is history,  you would not dare do it now, but you can because it has been OK, demonstrably,  for years.

    Similarly, if cars did not exist and we went to the Health and Safety folk to review a proposal for a new personal transporter  that had 25kV sparks, a hot exhaust and enough volatile fuel to put the driver into orbit stored in a single skin tank 4 inches above the road, you'd not get very far either.. But the main cause of accidents is not any of that, its concentration, or lack of.

    Mike.
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