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"BigWallop" writes:

I think people are only seeing the money side of things on this. All I read
in replies is the cost of this, and the cost of that, if these changes come
into play, it's going to cost Y extra to the trades people. What about the
lives at the end of this? Never mind "how many out of X inhabitants" die.
What about the small few that "are" crocking because of it?

Life is all about risks and managing them. Do you make use of
roads (as a vehicle user or a pedestrian)? Some 3500 people who
do are killed per year in accidents, so compared to the 5-10 people
killed by faulty wiring, you are 500 times more likely to be
killed as a road user than you are by faulty wiring, so you
better stay at home all the time then. Oh, hang on, something
around this same 3500 figure are killed by other accidents in
the home, so staying at home is also looking about 500 times
more dangerous than faulty wiring alone, so scratch that idea.
Perhaps you should go and stay in hospital, so you're near to
medical help when you have an accident as life is beginning to
look rather dangerous? Oh, something like this same 3500 figure
is the number of deaths in hospital due to picking up secondary
infections such as MRSA, so hospitals are looking like a mighty
dangerous place to stay too.

So to put this into perspective, you are so much more likely to
die from some other accidental or negligent cause, that the
5-10 deaths per year due to electrical installation faults are
completely off the radar. If you want to campaign to reduce
accidental deaths of some type, at least pick one which is
significant. Electrical installation deaths is completely
insignificant.

So instead of tackling some cause of accidental deaths which
might actually make an impact, the government has spent all this
money, resource, and time on something which is insignificant.
The government estimates that part P will reduce the number of
deaths due to electrical installations by only 20% -- that's
just 1 or 2 people per year. The three categories of accidental
deaths I list above account for over 10,000 deaths per year.
Spending the time on reducing that by even as little as 1% would
save 50 to 100 times more lives per year than the Part P farce.
Does this help make it clearer why Part P is completely bogus?

You DIY wrong you DIE right, simple.

Wrong. Lots of people DIY wrongly and very very few of them die.
There are going to be lots of faulty electrical installations
around for lots of reasons (DIY being only one of many), but
they very rarely kill anyone. Chances are far more DIYers are
killed actually en route to or from B&Q than are ever killed by
their own DIY work.

I hope this puts the figures into more perspective.

--
Andrew Gabriel