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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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    My point is that there are far less dangerous situations which get C1 because an EICR assumes that people are neither sensible nor risk aware.


    Neither the Edison nor bayonet cap lampholder is properly engineered.  The idea of transmitting the insertion force through a weak glass to metal bond is ludicrous.  As is borne out by the number of times an attempt to remove an old bulb results in the glass coming away in you hand and leaving a metal piece which can only be removed by using pliers.  A sensible design would use a clamping lever which locked the bulb in place after it had been inserted with zero force


    But, as in so much domestic electrical installations, cost triumphs over safety and convenience
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    My point is that there are far less dangerous situations which get C1 because an EICR assumes that people are neither sensible nor risk aware.


    Neither the Edison nor bayonet cap lampholder is properly engineered.  The idea of transmitting the insertion force through a weak glass to metal bond is ludicrous.  As is borne out by the number of times an attempt to remove an old bulb results in the glass coming away in you hand and leaving a metal piece which can only be removed by using pliers.  A sensible design would use a clamping lever which locked the bulb in place after it had been inserted with zero force


    But, as in so much domestic electrical installations, cost triumphs over safety and convenience
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