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Electrical wiring fires increase across UK

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  • I found the article thin on evidence and sources and bordering on the tabloid tbh. 


    Scaremongering in my honest view. Surely the increase in reports is because of the new requirement to report as per the article?

    As the ENA have stated, the risk is very low.

    Where did the Electrical Safety First get the figures of 40 people a year being injured by PEN faults? Where is this information and has it been verified?

    An important question and awareness is good but equal important that we present the facts and not dramatise these things in order to get clicks.

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  • I found the article thin on evidence and sources and bordering on the tabloid tbh. 


    Scaremongering in my honest view. Surely the increase in reports is because of the new requirement to report as per the article?

    As the ENA have stated, the risk is very low.

    Where did the Electrical Safety First get the figures of 40 people a year being injured by PEN faults? Where is this information and has it been verified?

    An important question and awareness is good but equal important that we present the facts and not dramatise these things in order to get clicks.

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