Bill wrote in message ...
In message , Steve Firth
writes
If the installer was Ms Tonge herself then the error may perhaps be
understandable. OTOH I can't see how someone managed to install the rack
without electrocuting themself.


From all I've read here it looks to me like an accident that no
sensible regulation or practice change could be expected to avoid. Why
do I say that? Nothing is 100% safe, not one thing in this world. Our
job is to use the limietd resources we've got to reduce risks as much
as poss, that means reducing the bigger ones. To put any measure in
place that would have prevented this would cost so much that many more
lives would be lost in other areas where oney was not spent on risk
reduction. It would not be cost effective, more lives would be lost
than saved. Same as with bathroom equipotential bonding, same problem.
Whoever came up with that one does not seems to grasp this.

At some time we have to bite the bullet of reality: we can not make
the world totally safe. It cant be done. And trying to will make us
all poorer, and lses resources to implement improvements will result
in more deaths not less.

The one realistic thing that would have made the difference was if the
family had enough brain cells between them to realise that if they
were getting shocks off the rack that it was a danger and should have
been removed, with power off. If they cant look after themselves on
such an obvious and basic level... not much we can do to help them.
Very sad, but unfortunately theres no way to wish deaths away, and no
way to stop a moron finding ways to endanger themselves.


NT