Electrician dies in Marks and Spencer

[Guest 004]

So it has happened, I hear on the radio that an Elerctrician was electrocuted last night working in an Marks and Spencers in Kent somewhere.
So what will happen now?
New regs?
New insurance?
Only qualified personel to work on Electrics?

 

[MDJ]

A marks and spencer cover up?

 

[Guest 004]

Worker killed by electric shock - UK News - MSN News UK

 

[Octopus]

My thoughts go out to the family who have lost their father, son, brother. Accidents happen, however tragic they are to the families concerned.

 

[Guest 004]

My thoughts go out to the family who have lost their father, son, brother. Accidents happen, however tragic they are to the families concerned.

Indeed

 

[snowhead]

So it has happened, I hear on the radio that an Elerctrician was electrocuted last night working in an Marks and Spencers in Kent somewhere.
So what will happen now?
New regs?
New insurance?
Only qualified personel to work on Electrics?

None of the above.
There are already enough controls in place.

 

[Guest 004]

An M&S spokeswoman confirmed that a "tragic incident" had taken place

 

[Amp David]

My thoughts go out to the family who have lost their father, son, brother. Accidents happen, however tragic they are to the families concerned.

Here Here!

 

[Octopus]

None of the above.
There are already enough controls in place.

Not sure I agree with this. For conciencous diligent people who abide by the rules - yes - for those who constantly cut corners and take risks, with little or no chance of being caught out, probably not.

 

[imago]

My thoughts go out to the family who have lost their father, son, brother. Accidents happen, however tragic they are to the families concerned.

Quite so.

When you take into account the number of workplace fatalities it's a sad inevitability that some will be electricians. There were 173 for 2011/12. Statistics - Fatal injury statistics for 2011/12

Possibly a coincidence, but there's a noticeable dip after the 17th came in.

 

[snowhead]

for those who constantly cut corners and take risks, with little or no chance of being caught out, probably not.

You can't legislate for stupidity.
Darwin wins, the ones that cut corners loose in the end, unfortunately innocents get caught up in this as well.

 

[jase]

no one has said it was an electrician??? just a contractor, could be a cleaning contractor

 

[Guest 004]

Quite so.

When you take into account the number of workplace fatalities it's a sad inevitability that some will be electricians. There were 173 for 2011/12. Statistics - Fatal injury statistics for 2011/12

Possibly a coincidence, but there's a noticeable dip after the 17th came in.

Would be interesting to see the stats for people that died form electric shock

 

[snowhead]

Statistics - Fatal injury statistics for 2011/12

Possibly a coincidence, but there's a noticeable dip after the 17th came in.

That'll be something else, 17th didn't do much for the workplace.

There's a dip 08 - 10, ties in with loss of jobs due to the World crisis.
There will be an slight increase soon as employment picks up, the current rate of reduction is below the previous average.

 

[snowhead]

Would be interesting to see the stats for people that died from electric shock

6 in 2011 -2012, page 3;

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/kinds-of-accident.pdf

Page 4; 5% of all Employee Fatals were caused by electricity.