Why should you never use a mains appliance if you have wet hands?

Answer 1

Simply because water contains ions which conduct electricity. So if you touch a plug with wet hands, your hands immediately conduct the circuit and the current flows through you... and you receive a nasty shock!

Answer 2

Our body normally have some resistance like kilo ohms so the current passing througu our body is less if we have wet it becomes zero resistance easily current flows through our body current always tray to flow to the low resistance.

Answer 3

The answer is obvious.....As seen in movies, anything with electrical chemicals that is in contact with water will send an electric shock from the water to the power cord. If you do touch a switch with wet hands your likely/possibly able to get a static shock that can damage your body. 1 side affect could be memory loss.

Answer 4

There is no reason why you can not touch a main switch or plug with wet hands. The manufacturer's have built into their products safeguard to prevent shocks from such actions. These electrical products are put through numerous tests for safety before they receive their safety standards seal of approval.

All water on the hands does is lower the resistance between you and the electrical device. The same condition occurs on hot summer days when your hands sweat and you touch electrical equipment.

The main purpose of grounding electrical equipment is to stop the equipment from reaching a high voltage potential before it becomes dangerous. The new implementation in the electrical code book rules, of GFCI and arc flash breakers even improves this safety margin.

In the long run, out of 86400 seconds in a day, take 5 seconds to dry your hands. No job is that important that 5 seconds is going to make any difference whatsoever.

Love the answer below, remember don't believe everything that you see in movies is true.

Answer 5

It can kill you.