Water and Energy International

SCOPUS
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 67r
  • Issue: 10

Let’s Work together for Electrical Safe India

  • Author:
  • Rajesh Kumar Arora1
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 31 to 37

1Sr. Manager, Delhi Transco Limited (DTL)

Abstract

Now-a-days, modern society is highly dependent on electrical power supply. To live & make our life comfortable, we use number of appliances/gadgets at our residence/office. Every day we get up with the news of electrocution or electrical fires in residential or commercial buildings or public location or distribution transformer or substation. This forces us to ponder over the reasons/ causes of such accidents which lead to loss of lives as well as assets/properties. This paper provides insight of different causes of electrocution or fire hazards for all locations.

Keywords

Electrocution, Electrical Fire, Insulation Failure, Short Circuit, Heating Effect, Arcing (Loose Connection), Grounding System