On 03/10/2019 16:09, bert wrote:
In article , Roger Hayter
writes
ARW wrote:

No 1. It's not just me that has them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-49884377

No 2. Just fixed the next door neighbours hedge trimmers after he cut
through the flex.

Me "These look brand new and as if they have never cut a hedge in their
life"

Ray "They haven't, I bought it yesterday and plugged it in a kitchen
socket to see if it worked. I just forgot to remove the flex that was
wrapped around the blade before I switched it on."

A link on the same page as No 1 - a faulty floodlight on a Council pitch
that killed someone having already caused shocks to users over a month
before.Â* Strangely the inquest recorded it as accidental rather than
culpable homicide.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-49893220

I suspect would depend if the council could reasonably be expected to
have know about it. Would it come under any mandatory inspection regime?

I would have expected an EICR every 5 years.

But from the article there were two previous reported shocks and
something should have been done immediately after the first shock.

Last year I was called out to a Doctors Surgery after a member of staff
reported a mild shock from their laptop. There was in fact nothing wrong
with the laptop (it PAT tested OK) all she had felt was a little charge
from the SMPS at a guess or a bit of static from something else.

The point is we were called out within the hour.

The only time I can remember a faster call out was when a ring circuit
at SITA went down and the vending machines stopped working:-)


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Adam