If you are getting shocks off an appliance you should switch it off immediately and have it PAT tested (portable appliance test) which will automatically check for a number of faults and tell you whether it passes or fails. If it fails it will tell you what it fails on. Any competent electrician will have a PAT tester or access to one and a monkey could use it! The industry standard testers are made by Seaward.
If the failure is caused by a live conductor coming into contact with your appliances structure it should trip the circuit breaker, blow a fuse or trip an RCD, these are all protection devices to prevent fire on a circuit to which a faulty appliance has been connected.
You will need to disconnect parts of the appliance and re test to see when the fault disappears, thn you will have found the culprit...
Flaskandsarnies
March 2013