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How many official electrical  reports of fatalities do we have in the U.K. from wiring accessories being splashed in bathrooms or shower rooms? Abroad people have been killed when dropping something into an occupied bath such as a phone charger. But here in the U.K?

 

Z.

Your point being, what we do here works because there are few, if any, and those cases being where people run extension leads into their bathroom?

Ah! A question mark. What we do does indeed work for safety. But I think that these days with modern methods of construction we may be going overboard. Decades ago with iron baths, many accessible metal pipes and big metal radiators, using water pipes as the main earth electrode, and towel rails in bathrooms the electrical risks  were greater than today. Who sprays the shower rose upwards? And if they do is it really an electrical risk even with an ordinary L.E.D. light fitting. The risk of a cracked glass bulb is much reduced due to them fading away.

Many modern bathrooms and shower rooms have an all insulated tub or shower tray. The floor is covered with vinyl or a synthetic carpet, and pipes are mainly plastic or inaccessible. An upstairs bathroom is placed on an insulating wooden floor. We don't really consider many of these aspects.

I think that modern bathrooms and shower rooms are inherently safer these days due to modern construction methods.

And full R.C.D. protection affords a very good safety provision.

Perhaps a kitchen sink is a more risky place where an electric appliance like an autojug kettle/base may drop into the full bowl of water. The sad example given by Graham above is a very rare and avoidable event. Of course if the charger had been fed via a U.K. double wound isolating transformer from a shaver outlet the deaths may not have happened. Or would they?

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Z.

gkenyon: 
 

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How many official electrical  reports of fatalities do we have in the U.K. from wiring accessories being splashed in bathrooms or shower rooms? Abroad people have been killed when dropping something into an occupied bath such as a phone charger. But here in the U.K?

 

Z.

Your point being, what we do here works because there are few, if any, and those cases being where people run extension leads into their bathroom?

Ah! A question mark. What we do does indeed work for safety. But I think that these days with modern methods of construction we may be going overboard. Decades ago with iron baths, many accessible metal pipes and big metal radiators, using water pipes as the main earth electrode, and towel rails in bathrooms the electrical risks  were greater than today. Who sprays the shower rose upwards? And if they do is it really an electrical risk even with an ordinary L.E.D. light fitting. The risk of a cracked glass bulb is much reduced due to them fading away.

Many modern bathrooms and shower rooms have an all insulated tub or shower tray. The floor is covered with vinyl or a synthetic carpet, and pipes are mainly plastic or inaccessible. An upstairs bathroom is placed on an insulating wooden floor. We don't really consider many of these aspects.

I think that modern bathrooms and shower rooms are inherently safer these days due to modern construction methods.

And full R.C.D. protection affords a very good safety provision.

Perhaps a kitchen sink is a more risky place where an electric appliance like an autojug kettle/base may drop into the full bowl of water. The sad example given by Graham above is a very rare and avoidable event. Of course if the charger had been fed via a U.K. double wound isolating transformer from a shaver outlet the deaths may not have happened. Or would they?

White Dual Voltage Shaver Socket | Now At Victorian Plumbing.co.uk

Z.