I found it to be an interesting read, I'm looking forward to future blogs on the topic as I do find it to be a misunderstood subject even for an electrical engineer who took power...
We've seen posts here that promote unsafe practices with mains voltages and to element14's credit they have removed them.
Unless people know something is not safe, they aren't aware it is dangerous.
Children don't really have in built safeguards, and learn from their parents/teacher/siblings.
Society seems to be heading to a 'lets all learn from video's' which unfortunately is not able to interact with people as they do 'whatever' that needs cautioning.
Soldering irons are a good example.
Easy when its just you using it, but in a group they tend to get passed, and guess which end the excited student trys to grab.
I am in favour of "don't try this at home", but I also prefer 'here is the safe way to do this'.
The most common injury during the tube days among repairmen was a fractured elbow, sustained while being shocked. All of the nerves would fire at once and move the arm that violently into a fixed object.
