14 Safety
Safety is sometimes seen as a boring subject that one pays lip service to if someone else is watching! Health and Safety at Work legislation in the UK has done much to increase safety awareness in industry, maybe not before time, and this book would be failing badly if it did not outline aspects of good safety practice. We shall mention four areas – electrical safety, noise hazards, general ‘mechanical’ safety and fire.
Electrical safety
We are so used to electricity that sometimes familiarity breeds contempt and it is possible for there to be fatal consequences. All mains-powered equipment should be regarded as potentially hazardous, yet the rules for avoiding danger are really very simple.
First of all, the mains plug must be wired ...
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