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This 10 page paper discusses the statement that “Electrical dangers have been designed out of products and household systems in South Africa, thus there is no real need for concern in respect of electrical safety”. The paper looks at the standards of safety of the delivery of electricity to domestic homes and the way in which safety of domestic items is regulated and enforced. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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any area there will be many that are not reported or classified as alternate causes, especially where electrical appliances may be involved. South Africa, in line with many other nations,
suffers from deaths and injuries and a direct and indirect result of the use of electricity. The risks may be known by those who work in the electricity industry, but
users of the power system and appliances may assume that they have been designed in such as way that they will be as safe as possible and there is no
need for concern. However there are still injuries, so is this perspective accurate or does this place a higher level of confidence in the suppliers than is deserved and are
there still dangers that need to be designed out of the products and household systems in South Africa? There is little doubt that in South Africa the use of electricity
has cut down on many other injury types, and it is possible that this detracts fro the level of dangers that are substituted. There has been an electrification project ongoing
ion South Africa for some time, this reduces the other energy sauces that present a high level of alterative dangers (Lerer, 1994). In South Africa the domestic environment sees the
use of a range of fuels including biomass fuels as well as coal and paraffin (Lerer, 1994). This alone has reduced significantly the number of house fires and the level
of paraffin poising that was occurring in areas where electricity is now available. To put this into context the rate of burn
injuries causing death in South Africa has 400% higher than the developed countries (Lerer, 1994). A large number if these are children and the high incidence is also exacerbated by
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