Yes, Earthing is important and mandatory for all electrical/electronic/digital installations. It is rather the heart of all electrical systems, and one cannot escape from it. There cannot be any electrical system without proper earthing.
A properly functional Earthing, in fact, is even essential for all appliances/gadgets to work properly, and flawlessly. Poor earthing can lead to premature failure as well as the malfunctioning of the appliances.
What is Earthing?
Earthing is the process to discharge the unintentional current instantly to the ground without permitting it to cause any damage to the lives or the equipment. This unintentional instantaneous discharge of current in the system or the surroundings can be either leakage current because of poor insulation, fault current due to wrong connections, or it could be because of short-circuit in the electrical network.
Whatever the case, this unintentional current is dangerous for the operator, as well as for the other persons coming in contact with the faulty system. This current has to be immediately discharged. Earthing is the mechanism devised for grounding this fault current and protecting instruments and lives from such accidental currents.
How does Poor Earthing claim lives?
As we have briefed, proper earthing grounds the fault current instantly by providing it a Low impedance path and protecting the operator, appliance, and the surroundings from any hazard that can happen because of the fault current.
Therefore, if the system lacks earthing or proper functional earthing, the fault current will pass through the body of the operator and will give him a fatal electrical shock. It will further lead to the frying up of the connected appliance or can ablaze the electrical system itself, leading to a major disaster due to fire.
In this manner, either by setting on fire or by giving a severe electrical shock, poor earthing can claim lives.
Can you provide some instances where poor earthing has claimed lives?
Here's a recent case where poor earthing has claimed 16 lives in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand state under the Namami Gange Project.
The District Collector informed that due to poor maintenance and poor quality earthing 16 people died in an ugly incident of electrical shock in STP Hall under the Namami Gange Project.
This has further resulted in the blacklisting of two companies from the approved panel of vendors supplying and installing earthing to the Govt departments.
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