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Old 28th Sep 2018, 4:18 pm   #62
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Default Re: Transformer safety?

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Originally Posted by GrimJosef View Post
Modern equipment is so safe that you can treat it however you like and it won't hurt you. Decades ago it wasn't, so you had to be a bit careful, but if you were it wouldn't hurt you back then either. So perhaps the major result of all the safety improvements, in terms of electric shock at least, has simply been 'dumbing down' ? I honestly don't know if there's any truth in this though. Does anyone ?

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No I don't know but I think you make a very good point (in bold). There is far less knowledge of basic (like fitting a plug) electrical practice as a result of 'elf an safety'. I'm not knocking the health and safety regs because some people worked in very dangerous conditions but sometimes I think they have gone too far. It would be interesting to see the statistics of say 50 years ago of death by electrocution and those of today.
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