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Quote: DaButt @ April 27 2012, 3:51 PM BSTI had to Google it. What an odd thing.
It's a UK health & safety thing.
All publicly accessible electric equipment (schools & offices etc) has to be tested to see that it's insulation etc is in good condition.
Needed (?) slightly more in Europe as opposed to USA because our mains voltage at 240 volts is more lethal than USA voltage, typically 120 volts.
Quote: billwill @ April 27 2012, 6:41 PM BSTAll publicly accessible electric equipment (schools & offices etc) has to be tested to see that it's insulation etc is in good condition.
It still sounds like needless bureaucracy. I can see testing fire extinguishers, elevators, medical equipment and the like, but testing the office coffeemaker seems ridiculous.
This is England. This is what the greatest nation on earth has been reduced to.
It takes 2 hours once a year and that office coffee maker, monitor etc can start a surprising number of fires.
It takes 2 hours once a year and that office coffee maker, monitor etc can start a surprising number of fires.
Quote: sootyj @ April 27 2012, 7:20 PM BSTIt takes 2 hours once a year and that office coffee maker, monitor etc can start a surprising number of fires.
Is your rate of fires and electrocutions lower than nations without such testing? I doubt it.
If it's so important and vital, why aren't private homes tested? That's where people spend 75% of their time.
Well its part of the general fire safety stuff that keeps people safe at work.
I mean fatal fires are pretty rare in public buildings in the UK.
Keeps people safe, gives someone a job. If there's one thing to nit-pick at, I don't think it's this.
And it allows the ministery of love to bug all our workplaces.
Hail Big Brother who's love is infinite!
Quote: sootyj @ April 27 2012, 7:32 PM BSTI mean fatal fires are pretty rare in public buildings in the UK.
It's the same here but nobody checks our office toasters, etc.
I found this from the UK government: 36 people died in fires in buildings other than dwellings
and this from the U.S. government: non-residential structure fires resulted in 90 fatalities
We have roughly 5 times your population but only 2.5 times the deaths.
Quote: Lee @ April 27 2012, 7:35 PM BSTKeeps people safe, gives someone a job. If there's one thing to nit-pick at, I don't think it's this.
Those jobs are paid for with your money.
Nah we pay them from our own organisational funds.
Besides do you know how annoying it is when one electrical item trips out and you have to find the damn thing?
Besides we've got greater population density so a fire could be more terrible.
Quote: sootyj @ April 27 2012, 8:20 PM BSTNah we pay them from our own organisational funds.
Every cost there is is passed on to the consumer.
Yes we laugh in their faces when we do that.
But then we also get to wear spiffy uniforms made in finest DPRK vinylon.
We love pointless beuracracy. Almost as much as we love our half an hour compulsory worshipping of EU directives.
Quote: DaButt @ April 27 2012, 8:12 PM BSTThose jobs are paid for with your money.
As with anything/ever.