Would you put a wall switch in a bathroom

[Redvanman]

Only if it's outside the zones that is

 

[Badged01]

Not something I was taught at college, maybe the 'younger' members can comment but I doubt very much whether 'live' testing with a body part would form part of any electrical curriculum!

I was shown it the hard way under 'supervision' by more learned colleagues, who eventually picked themselves up off the floor after laughing so much. But that was back in the 70's, where shall we say things were done a lot differently than today ....

 

[Risteard]

Only if it's outside the zones that is

The rest of the world does it and they aren't littered with corpses around the switch in the bathroom.

 

[Rockingit]

I was taught that after testing for dead you tapped the busbars with the back of your fingers. The theory being you couldn’t grip the busbar, never got a belt off the power systems so can’t say if that’s right or not.

I've always done that, too. Was how I was taught - after you've used a machine to tell you it's safe, guarantee it was telling you the truth with the back of a finger and the other hand in your pocket. Mind you, my old chief also just used a wet finger in a pendant as a Voltage indicator! So I still do it to this day, isolate then tap, it's just force of habit.

 

[shanky887614]

Do they still teach you to do this at college or has it all become so anally PC its not taught anymore, we were openly taught to use this method after testing and in some cases if you forgot your meters lol....Oh how times change!!!

yeah they dont teach that anymore.

 

[PEG]

Going back to the original question,i've stuck stranger things in weirder places...and have the children to prove it...it has always amused me that this issue creates such a polarised group of opinions,yet most of us happily put 100% faith in our RCD's (where fitted) every time we adjust or turn off our ubiquitous electric showering devices...Go in a cool bathroom(temperature,not fashion...) have a ten minute hot shower,isolate and whip the front off.Some are more disappointing than others...i think i will move mine to the other wall and operate it using a broomstick and a rubber-glove :lipsrsealed2:

 

[GLENNSPARK]

NOT SO!! ...If anything, the over reliance of RCD devices is in the UK, and the way BS7671 has been drafted!!

well that crap about an RCD being used to get round a dodgy Zs needs to go....