What are the potential dangers of electricity?

Answer 1

The electricity in your home is dangerous. Many people have had an electric shock at some time or another without lasting injury but this does not show an immunity, merely the unpredictable nature of electrcity shocks. Slightly different circumstances could have resulted in death. it can easily kill people especially if you are young, old or sick. This is why all the wiring in a house has different forms of protection and is generally built into the walls, ceilings and floors.

• If you put something metal in a socket it could give you an electric shock.
• Keep water and drinks away from electricity and never take electricity into the bathroom. If you have wet hands you should not touch electricity, you should wipe your hands because you could get an electric shock.
• Do not let leads from electrical wires drag across the floor.
• If you leave a light bulb on you can burn yourself because it can be very hot.
• Do not put flammable materials on hot things as they could burn.
• Never leave fire by electrical items.
• Batteries are less dangerous than using plugs.
• If you plug too many plugs just in one socket then it may get over heated and catch fire.

high voltage: this is defined in national and international standards as being in excess of 1000 V ac or 1500 V dc.

D A Woolgar

Answer 2

If you touch an energized circuit you could get shocked (could be mild tingle, burns on your skin or internally) or electrocuted (dead). If there circuit makes a direct connection with ground you could have thousands of amps flowing which will cause an explosion that can burn you, pressure wave can be enough to cause hearing damage or even collapse a lung.

Best to stay away from electricity if you have not been properly trained.

Answer 3

Examples: short circuits, fires, electric shocks, undesired overheating, local perturbations near high tension lines etc.

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Answer #2:

Electricity gets a bad rap. The truth is that just like money, love, religion,

fame, wine, and marriage, a person who doesn't know what he's doing

can hurt himself with it.

Answer 4

My grandfather, a master electrician, was electrocuted in late mid-life by 25,000 watts on the roof of a steel mill.

Types of dangers include:

1. touching a LIVE WIRE - must be #1
2. unexpected surge
3. faulty insulators or improper wiring
4. failure to follow safety measures every minute and all of the time
5. inattention, failure to be super aware; complacency; thinking you know what electricity will do
6. thinking you are bigger and smarter than electricity, forgeting how wicked it IS, and that we just try to control it
7. inadvertent contact with metal or any conductor of electricity
8. failure to control your tools
9. natural electrical current, such as lightning
10. natural electrical discharge, which doesn't need weather to be present
11. inexperience
12. stupidity and / or showing off

Answer 5

electricity can cause short circuits wich might end up in a fire that burns down a building and an electrocution can harm a human or even cause death.

Answer 6

electricution

Answer 7

Short notes on Hazards of electricity?

Answer 8

Electric Shock And Fire