{"id":70932,"date":"2017-11-04T01:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/risky-tumble-dryers-putting-profit-before-people-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T03:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:06:21","slug":"risky-tumble-dryers-putting-profit-before-people-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/risky-tumble-dryers-putting-profit-before-people-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Risky tumble dryers putting profit before people | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhy are hundreds of thousands of tumble dryers which pose a fire risk still in people\u2019s homes, asks Steve Tombs How can it be the case that \u201cAn estimated 1m \u2018faulty\u2019 tumble dryers at risk of bursting into flames are still in UK homes\u201d (Report, 1 November)? Two years ago, in November 2015, Whirlpool finally admitted that there were some 3.8m potentially faulty tumble dryers across the UK \u2013 prone to catching fire. Their response? Something along the lines of \u201cwe\u2019ll get round to repair at some point, and in the meantime don\u2019t use them unattended\u201d. Whirlpool did not issue a product recall, nor did regulators require them to do so.When, in August 2016, a fire caused the evacuation of a Shepherd\u2019s Bush tower block, Whirlpool stuck by this advice \u2013 and it was only six months later that customers were told not to use the dryers and unplug them. Even in the light of a much more recent and much more tragic fire in a West London high rise \u2013 at Grenfell Tower \u2013 triggered, it is believed, by a Whirlpool fridge freezer \u2013 no tumble dryer recall has been issued, nor have customers with a dryer they dare not plug in been recompensed. In the immediate aftermath of Grenfell, \u201cregulation\u201d and \u201cenforcement\u201d to protect public safety very quickly came back in vogue, mouthed positively rather than spat out in disgust by politicians. How quickly that has changed, as tongues are bitten to preserve corporate profit.Steve TombsProfessor of criminology, Open University Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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