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  • vanlifeUK
    vanlifeUK Forum Participant Posts: 6
    edited July 2016 #32

    Again the world gone mad and the insurance/health and safety wannabe officers are out and about. If we are being
    pedantic then there should be no outdoor sockets as children could also lift the cover and poke there fingers in. There should be a minimum of 10m radius around BBqs. all flagpoles should be inserfted into the ground at least 4ft and
    tied off too a main structure all gas bottles should be replaced by a qualified gas installer. At what point should common sense prevail, or is it just a general dig at motorhomes

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    edited July 2016 #33
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  • Cartledge
    Cartledge Forum Participant Posts: 267
    100 Comments
    edited July 2016 #34

    My pitch, my lead, my choice , what others do is up to them, none of my business .

    Oh yes it is!  My country, my government, my laws.  What others do has to be regulated to protect against stupidity.   These connectors ARE NOT WATERPROOF!  It rains, it puddles, it floods.   One does not need to actually touch such a connector lying on
    the ground to be killed.

    If motorcarvanners/campervanners are too lazy to take their lead with them then I recon it is fair game for them to come back and find it safely unplugged and stacked in neat three foot lengths.

    Two wrongs dont make a right. Someone may inadvertently leave a cable plugged in. So, do you really think it acceptable to come along with your very own wire cutters and slice it into 3ft lengths. What do think other campers would do watching you commit
    criminal damage. It's a bit of a wind up isn't it? Really? 120 feet of cable as on each of my reels, would take near 4 mimutes! 

    With the greatest of respect and in my humble opinion, an unnecessarily aggressive response. Why not just safely unplug it as you suggest and leave it at that?

     

  • JVB66
    JVB66 Forum Participant Posts: 22,892
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #35

    Again the world gone mad and the insurance/health and safety wannabe officers are out and about. If we are being
    pedantic then there should be no outdoor sockets as children could also lift the cover and poke there fingers in. There should be a minimum of 10m radius around BBqs. all flagpoles should be inserfted into the ground at least 4ft and
    tied off too a main structure all gas bottles should be replaced by a qualified gas installer. At what point should common sense prevail, or is it just a general dig at motorhomes

    ...I do not think its a "general dig at motor homes" only the ones who do not understand what could be a,problemUndecided

  • jennyc
    jennyc Forum Participant Posts: 957
    500 Comments
    edited July 2016 #36

     ....

    I wander around my house with a live vacuum cleaner lead on a regular basis, now add in my domestic iron, hair dryer, food mixer etc. Are you suggesting that this is unacceptably dangerous?

    But there is an appliance on the end of each cable with its own on/off switch that is designed to make/break a supply

    Write your comments here...

    How does an appliance connected to the end of a flexible cable make it safer than a properly engineered socket with a spring loaded cover? My iron doesn't have an on/ off switch, just a thermostat.

    ...You iron wnen control turned to zero is switched off

    Write your comments here...

    I've just got home from a break and checked. There's no 0, the lowest setting is Min.

  • hitchglitch
    hitchglitch Forum Participant Posts: 3,007
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #37

    As usual on this forum when there are technical issues that people don't understand they come up with daft, if not dangerous, comments. Why not just accept what the experts say and adopt best practice? OK,some things are more important than others but many
    hundreds of people die in domestic accidents every year and a fair number of those concern electrical safety.

    Why try and argue that it is perfectly OK to have a live plug lying around in a wet field when the plug isnt even designed to be water tight. Why try and connect a plug and socket which might be carrying a large current, again in a wet field, when it is
    far safer to do it in the right sequence?

    When advice is published in handbooks etc. and by official bodies, it is often because people have been injured or killed by doing things incorrectly.

  • JCB4X4
    JCB4X4 Forum Participant Posts: 466
    100 Comments
    edited July 2016 #38

    As usual on this forum when there are technical issues that people don't understand they come up with daft, if not dangerous, comments. Why not just accept what the experts say and adopt best practice? OK,some things are more important than others but many
    hundreds of people die in domestic accidents every year and a fair number of those concern electrical safety.

    Why try and argue that it is perfectly OK to have a live plug lying around in a wet field when the plug isnt even designed to be water tight. Why try and connect a plug and socket which might be carrying a large current, again in a wet field, when it is
    far safer to do it in the right sequence?

    When advice is published in handbooks etc. and by official bodies, it is often because people have been injured or killed by doing things incorrectly.

    You Know It Makes Sense !!!!!

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