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Originally Posted by Station X
Those plastic safety plugs must be one of the most useless things ever invented. Apart from being totally unnecessary with shuttered sockets, a child can pull it out and reinsert just the earth pin. They then grab a metal knitting needle, paper clip or W.H.Y and shove it in the holes. I've even seen them used in adult care homes!
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And can damage the socket as the pins in a lot of cases are larger than the standard to make them 'fit' more securely.
Essentially by using them you are defeating the built in safety protection of BS1363 sockets.
a good website for this is
http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/
who are behind the campaign to get them outlawed, they are already now banned on NHS property.