No I have have not been involved with manufacturing electrical goods that need inspecting by a standards authority. I do however have a hefty bill
I have to pay each and every year for inspection of all our electrical workshop and office equipment. In the five or so years that we have been doing
this safety audit our tech has found a couple of serious issues. Only one being a potential lethal issue a faulty earth leakage protection device. I agree
that safety is the most important home/workplace issue but I also believe we need to be protected from the parasites that have jumped on the safety
bandwagon and plague business and government with their incessant and unnecessary propaganda. As a side note, we have never had an issue with
power cords and ours get dragged across work-sites, workshop concrete floors and generally abused to hell.
My question is that we are looking at home built power cables that will be handled gently/lovingly, and used very carefully (no bending or coiling please)
in your household application. The cables should be carefully constructed (no we don't want to electrocute ourselves and some of us are not morons) and I
suspect built to a very high standard that makes the Australian Standard that allows cheap sh!t Approved Chinese cables to be sold at every hardware shop a bloody joke.
Have you not seen the recall rates on all this so called AS Approved Garbage. The standards mean next to nothing and obviously do not guarantee user safety
These standards are the result of safety industry lobby groups gone mad. I wonder when certification of the office coffee cup will start.
Iwanna turn that -2 into a -102
hi gamve
I feel your pain, as the company I work for has to deal with similar problems.
We perform all our electrical plant & equipment testing in-house, which greatly reduces our cost to comply with electrical safety requirements.
The issue of safety recalls for most goods has IMO always been that the
marketplace has to identify the failure to comply, rather than the manufacturer/importer/distributor ensure all shipments of goods are 'up to spec' before distribution.
Also, in many instances, once the first batch is approved, subsequent batches don't comply, and possibly were never intended to.
Even when companies get caught, there is insufficient penalty to them IMO.
In my view,
this is not the fault of any standard, rather the lack of enforcement to the required standard. Particularly where safety is concerned.
Babies die in nonconforming cots, children choke on unsafe toys, houses burn down because of unsafe electrical products, people die unecessarily.
But not as many as years gone by. This is in some way due to better safety standards.
IMV, we need 'em. Coz unscrupulous people would do even more untold damage to faceless people, ie the public.
Also, unfortunately, sometimes Joe Public also needs to be protected from himself.
Never underestimate how much damage an idiot can do, nor an unscrupulous person.