Friend got an electrical shock at work!! help!!!

[Jake1992]

Hi, need some help.
Friend of mine switch a switched (metal) and she got an electric shock. Her work are pushing it aside but she has found a report(paperwork) saying "it had no earth wire and it is dangerous. No earth, doesnt meet regs"

Apparently the lights she wanted to turn on never worked anyway.

Where does she stand with work? They are pushing the matter aside, and she doesnt know what to do.

Please if you can, quote the regs and reg numbers so i can tell her where she stands.

Cheers .
Jake

 

[barneybhoy]

Where was it that it happened? Are there any area managers she could talk to if she got no joy from her own manager?

 

[micknew]

Shes not injured, she mainly ****ed off with work not soing nothing about it?

Never heard of anyone getting compensation for being ****ed off.
We'd all be millionaire's if that was possible lol.

 

[Knobhead]

There’s a distinct smell about this.

A smell I associate with my grandfather’s farm yard. He had a Friesian bull, it produced lots of it.

 

[ruston]

Never heard of anyone getting compensation for being ****ed off.
We'd all be millionaire's if that was possible lol.

Don't know --- company directors and bankers seem to manage it.:38:

 

[micknew]

There’s a distinct smell about this.

A smell I associate with my grandfather’s farm yard. He had a Friesian bull, it produced lots of it.

Or somebody looking to get compensation because they're skint.

 

[Silly Sausage]

She was probably being serviced by the donkey sized office stud at the time, and it just so happened when, women have strange minds, she fancied switching the light on and at the same time she reached that special moment.
Electric Sex.

 

[Engineer54]

How come no-one else has received a shock from this light switch then??

As others here have stated this was probably a static induced shock and will have more to do with what the person receiving the shock was wearing than anything else....

 

[Knobhead]

Apparently at menstruation women have a 15% higher water content than men. In theory that makes them more conductive.

Ask you’re colleague if she was,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (Never mind, I don’t want to know.)

 

[Deleted member 9648]

COM-PEN-SAY-SHUN...thats wot she wonts,cud be wurf mill-yuns.
She shud try forlin over a curb if this dont wurk.

 

[derek]

Unless she has actually received an injury i.e. burns or she was up a ladder and it caused her to fall or such then she won't receive any compensation.
Is the conduit metal?
If others have used this switch and not got a shock then it is likely to be static.
If the conduit is plastic then there would be a requirement to run a cpc or use class 2 fittings.

 

[MDJ]

Shes not injured, she mainly ****ed off with work not soing nothing about it?

Tell her not to try to switch it on again, and if the lights never worked why was she trying to switch them on lol

 

[RWJ]

Tell her not to try to switch it on again, and if the lights never worked why was she trying to switch them on lol

Was wondering the same thing myself!

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Tell her to just forget it and don't touch the switch again, how is she going to know if anything has been done about it? Is she going to touch the switch again to check?. It will have been a static.

 

[Kate]

Tell her not to try to switch it on again, and if the lights never worked why was she trying to switch them on lol

Easily done.
Installed a PIR to my downstairs toilet 2months ago. I still reach for a pullcord

 

[Geordie Spark]

Easily done.
Installed a PIR to my downstairs toilet 2months ago. I still reach for a pullcord

I'm not surprised ................. you always were a slow learner !! :joker: