Friday 21 November 2008

The fuse box

Just another post about the electric installations in this flat (... and in general ...). This is the main fuse box: note the amount of insulation tape on it and the amount of live bits of metals you can easily touch with your fingers (not to mention that the protecting door itself is metallic and not earthed at all) ... but it works and there are no reports of thousands of people getting electrocuted every single day.

It may sound strange but it seems that here in Brazil despite not having that many health and safety rules/laws forbidding you touching electric cables ... people don't tend to do it anyway! :-)

1 comment:

Garlow said...

U're right, probably in the UK Health & Safety regulations are getting a little bit... "over-the-top" (not to say totally ridiculous, stupid and unnecessary) but it employs a lot of people that otherwise would be useless to society.