Help settle an argument please

[peachyrose]

Person A says it’s completely safe it’s plastic and will cause no harm

person b is horrified at how silly person a has been.

2 year olds been bathed and then with wet hands has been held up to turn the light on in the bedroom when person b asked if the 2 year old has wet hands person a says yes we always do it when I do bath time but don’t worry it’s completely safe because it’s plastic
will try and add a pic of the switch but who is right in this ?

I live in a house in the UK, built in 2014 by a reputable builder (Cala) and it has switches as per the picture in every bathroom. There are no other type of light switches anywhere else in the house

I’m not keen on children being encouraged to play with switches… but that aside, switches live in kitchens quite happily. I think it’s a bit of a non issue.

No, it's large parts of the world and we don't all have less power/current like the US.

Same here. I agree it's not ideal and shouldn't be encouraged, but the child is unlikely to come to harm. It only seems to be the UK which has this weird idea about electric sockets in bathrooms.

It's one of the things foreign visitors complain about - not being able to use the hairdryer in front of the bathroom mirror.

I suspect you live somewhere with a lower voltage electricity supply than the UK.

For example, it’s normal to have plug sockets in bathrooms in the USA because their electricity supply is a much lower voltage than ours, and an electric shock from a socket is highly unlikely to do you much in the way of serious harm. But a shock from a UK socket is much more dangerous.

No, I don't as I've already mentioned. More countries than don't do allow sockets in bathrooms and they're not all low voltage countries.

It’s not ideal and I wouldn’t be happy with my husband suggesting our toddler touched it with wet hand s

Where do you live? Certain countries have lower 'voltage/current/power' (not sure what correct term is) than in the UK and so a lower risk if injury if anything did happen.

This may be a small risk but personally I've taught our dc to understand that any electricity and water do not mix. Saying one is 'oh its okay ' could lead them to believe , wrongly, that other situations could also be ok! When in fact ut could be a major risk/lifethreatening.