Safety safety safety is all you here. A little kid in Detroit sticks a fork in a receptacle and BAM!!!we write new code and tamper resistant is born. A carpenter in a hurry tells the electrician he will install the receptacles in the new home so he can get a check at the end of the week. Fast forward six months and there's a fire in the dining room because the carpenter forced # 12 into the back of a receptacle quick connect Can someone really truly tell me who is running things the inspectors who are all about safety at any cost.(or how much does safety cost this month) Or the manufacturer of devices who now make tamper resistant with the same should have been outlawed 20yrs ago quick connects. One little example of who we all know drives the industry. Money and greed no one gives a rats ass about the kid in Detroit or it would have been done a long time ago. It's about selling product. Can't wait for the next genius inspector that if you look close at his credentials actually works for Leiviton or whatever. I can't tell you how many times I've troubleshot brand new million dollar homes where a wire pulls out of the back quick connect burning up until it's discovered. Don't eliminate the quick connect let's make everyone put in arc fault protection. As long as things can be made cheap quick and easy people will always go that route. If one company decided safety first no more quick connects but company B keeps making quick connect devices. Which company sells more ? So when the next code update comes out and the safety only conscience inspectors are shouting from there soap boxes look closely at there feet it's not a soap box at all but a stack of cash.
If I can read between the lines, (which isn't hard pertaining to this post) it appears that your having a little trouble with the "inspection process". According to your post, inspectors are secretly on the take from electrical equipment manufactures and are receiving substantial kick backs and large sums of cash for promoting their goods.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the inspectors don't write the NEC. Their job is to enforce it, as it is written.
Take a look at your 2014 code book. Go to pages 70-10 through 70-22. These are the guys and gals who write the code. Correct me if I am wrong, but I doubt that your inspector(s) name(s) appears on this list of CMP's.
From your post, you are definitely not happy with what you perceive as a heavy hand from the manufactures in the code making process. Flip to the back of your code book to pages 12/12-A, B & C. This is where your opinion will be heard. If you feel strongly about the issues that you have posted, (which your undoubtedly do) I suggest that you fill out the appropriate paper work and let the CMP's know how you feel.
As you stated in your opening sentence of your post and I quote " Safety safety safety is all you here." Flip to page 70-23 which is Article 90 - Introduction.
90.1 Purpose.
(A) Practical Safeguarding. The purpose of this Code is the
practical safeguarding of persons and property from hazards
arising from the use of electricity. This Code is not intended as a
design specification or an instruction manual for untrained
persons.
In a nut shell, this is the purpose of the NEC. This is why we have the NEC and inspectors to enforce it.
Like most things in life, there is good, bad and everything in between. Yes, this also includes inspectors.
I do take offense to your blanket assumption stated in your post, that inspectors have little or no integrity. This is simply not true. Some of the most honest and knowledgeable people I have met in this industry are inspectors.
