Safer drinking water

The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) has provided electrical earth connections for water coolers at 60 schools in the capital this year in a project to commemorate His Majesty the King’s 60th Year on the throne.

The earth connections will enhance safety.

Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin said the MEA plans to provide connections for coolers at 260 schools before 2009. The schools are all run by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

--The Nation 2005-12-01

Long overdue! It should have been made mandatory years ago, and prevented avoidable deaths such as this one.

Unearthed appliances are the third highest killer of children in Thailand, and now we have a whole sixty schools that finally comply with a basic electrical code out of how many thousand? Words escape me once more.

BANGKOK: -- A boy aged five was electrocuted on Saturday night while trying to pour himself a drink from a water cooler at a district hospital.

Police said yesterday Thirapat Klabsong went to Yupparat Wiang Sa Hospital with his parents to visit a relative, but then went alone and barefoot to get some water from a cooler.

By the time the boy’s body was found, it was too late for doctors and nurses to help him.

Provincial public health chief Dr Phoomwich Kwanmuang said he had sent a team to check on the hospital. “We have to step up safety measures. The cooler should have a warning sign.”

The boy’s death generated concern as the hospital handles more than 100 people a day.

--The Nation 2005-09-26

Now are they going to rewire the coolers so that they are capable of being earthed?

that finally comply with a basic electrical code out of how many thousand? Words escape me once more.

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What electrical code??

I have never seen a Thai building with earth pins on the plugs,

well only where foreigners work or live and have insisted.

It is certainly not a standard, or coded procedure!!

All equipment should also have earth connections.

Again, not a standard in Thailand.

Provincial public health chief Dr Phoomwich Kwanmuang said he had sent a team to check on the hospital. “We have to step up safety measures. The cooler should have a warning sign.”

--The Nation 2005-09-26

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WARNING! This cooler KILLS! To avoid death please wear shoes.

Provincial public health chief Dr Phoomwich Kwanmuang said he had sent a team to check on the hospital. “We have to step up safety measures. The cooler should have a warning sign.”

--The Nation 2005-09-26

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WARNING! This cooler KILLS! To avoid death please wear shoes.

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But you must love the attitude - let's not fix the problem, let's put up some signs instead!

Guess small children who haven't learned to read yet just have themselves to blame..........

Well, themselves, or fate.