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no....Here's something to consider: I've taken a hand > hand (cross the chest) belt at 400V due to another 'electricians' incompetence and am alive to tell the tale purely due to the RCD, of that I have no doubt.
HOWEVER, those few milliseconds before it tripped allows a good few cycles to flow through you, and it bloody hurts, no if's no but's. Your muscles are bruised for days to come, your breathing gets affected, your heart likely goes into arrhythmia even if it self recovers afterwards. I was fortunate to be very fit and healthy so the only outcome was that someone got sworn at incredibly loudly, but I can completely see the same thing having floored an elderly person.
What we work with KILLS. Plain and simple. It is a raging beast which we have learnt to cage and contain, domesticate and 'make safe'. We are not electricians we are lion tamers - let loose the lion and all hell breaks out.
This is why the world does not need novice lion tamers aka Electrical Trainee's, it needs proper well trained ring masters.
due to your own incompetance...
so just who told you to handle any 2 phases simultaneously?
come on...this is pis poor practice...