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Exposed: Cash for logos and drive by inspections

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Inadequate inspections on the safety of wiring in buildings across England are increasing the risk of fires, E&T has found. A flawed regulatory system has sparked a race to the bottom, with some businesses profiting at the expense of the public’s safety. 

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  • Bear in mind the Working Group stated:

    ”The group noted that 62% of PRS households currently had RCDs installed.”

    Now if the 38% without RCD protection are all flats without access to outdoor spaces such as gardens and driveways and they also don’t have electric showers I would not raise so many concerns.

    But I doubt that is the reality of the situation.

    Some years ago I was working in a kitchen doing electrical work and another electrician was working completely independently in the conservatory, the customer was mowing the lawn when the mower stopped with a bang, I realised the customer had just snagged the mower cable and ran to the consumer unit to throw the main switch as the other electrician screamed “No!” at the customer.

    When I went into the garden the customer was stood holding the end of the cable saying “Look, it’s okay I have had one of those consumer units with a RCD fitted that turns the electric off if you cut the lawnmower cable”.

    The other electrician looked at me and said “Did it?” you can guess the answer I gave.

    On another occasion I was working in a house when an air ambulance landed in the road outside after the neighbour cut through his lawnmower flex, they were too late to do anything he died instantly.

    So please don’t even suggest I am going over the top saying that sockets supplying outdoor equipment need 30 mA RCD protection, they need it although in reality it may not actually be enough.

  • in reply to Sparkingchip

    Let's not forget the sad, tragic, Emma Shaw case.

    Young mother electrocuted as she mopped up water from leaky boiler died after catalogue of workmen's errors | Daily Mail Online

    No R.C.D.

    IET Forums - EMMA SHAW CASE (theiet.org)

    Z.

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  • in reply to Zoomup

    I don’t think a RCD was actually a requirement at the time for cables in metal stud walls at that time also the I&T was falsified, but a PRS EICR should have picked that up, assuming it was of course actually a rented home, so possibly not the best example in this instance but certainly an example of what should have been avoided.

  • in reply to Sparkingchip

    An example of where an R.C.D. may have prevented a death indoors. Not all risks are in the garden.

    Z.

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