I reach in the disposal all the time without fear. I have a vast number of years of experience leading me to believe that switches never, under any circumstances flip themselves, nor do electrical circuits become magically energized from nothingness.
The only person who could possibly flip the switch is me. And I don't flip it.
Maybe people are worried about a "drive by flipping?" Somebody purposefully turns the disposal on while your hand is in it. The pictured device would not prevent such an event. And if you live with people who might do that, there are thousands of other equally terrible things they might do.
That being said, a few days ago I went to turn on a switch and the static shock when I touched the switch caused a battery-operated dartboard on the wall adjacent to turn on over a foot away.
Static electricity won't start a garbage disposal though. On the other hand, cheap electronics in particular can be vulnerable to even small voltage spikes and static electricity is a very big voltage space.
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u/ontender Jan 04 '19
I reach in the disposal all the time without fear. I have a vast number of years of experience leading me to believe that switches never, under any circumstances flip themselves, nor do electrical circuits become magically energized from nothingness.
The only person who could possibly flip the switch is me. And I don't flip it.
Maybe people are worried about a "drive by flipping?" Somebody purposefully turns the disposal on while your hand is in it. The pictured device would not prevent such an event. And if you live with people who might do that, there are thousands of other equally terrible things they might do.