Mostly this stuff is just single fault to danger - exposed basic insulation, use of singles where we would want insulated and sheathed, and in other places cut-back earths. Not so dissimilar to the pre 13A plug days here.
The 2 cases of bare copper where the core insulation of the 3 phase extension leads have been bitten by the cord grips of the connectors are probably the most dangerous thing.
However even with that I bet there have been no actual fatalities reported since it was installed.
We are very mollycoddled here in in the UK and we tend to forget that there are different risk balances in other places. Our own approach of insisting on double fault to danger, often plus additional measures as well, is a level of paranoia that would be seen as gross overkill in many other places.
There are parts of South America that would be worse in terms of exposed live wires, and India would have the tape and twist joins, but not have the choc blocs.
I suggest we should try and travel actually, either in person or virtually, just to occasionally re-calibrate our sense of what is a real risk, and what is imagined.
Mike
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