Just because something isn’t broken, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t need work. This is especially true when it comes to your Mains Distribution System. It’s important to make sure you don’t under estimate the importance of keeping your electrics maintained.
Aimed at students and electrical apprentices; the IET has launched an IET Wiring Regulations guide. Providing essential guidance, the publication helps to prepare students who are working toward gaining qualifications and successfully completing courses, the standards of which are set by awarding bodies.
Keep electrics in your property maintained and make sure you don’t expose yourself or anyone you live with to potentially fatal electrical accidents like millions of people in the UK, down to a simple lack of knowledge. Read more
How often do you consider that you could have a faulty electrical product in your home or office?
Electrical Safety First have recently released a news article with worrying statistics about the success rate of recalling fault electrical goods. In the January sales and over Christmas, masses of electrical products have been purchased with an assumption that what you buy off the shelf or on the internet is going to be safe; this is not the case. Read more
New research commission by NICEIC, the UK’s leading regulatory body for electricians has uncovered some disturbing statistics about the safety of our homes during the Christmas period.
Residual Current Devices (RCDs) are used for extra safety as they detect most electrical faults and almost immediately cut of the electricity supply.
Supply cables are permanently protected if the RCD is built into the main supply or socket-outlet, speak to our team today to find out how we can make this possible in your business. An RCD works by constantly monitoring the flow of electricity, if it detects the electricity flowing down an unintended path, for example a person who has touched a live part, it will switch off the circuit rapidly, reducing the risk of serious injury or death.
From 1st October 2015, landlords are required by law to install working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms under new measures announce by Housing Minister Brandon Lewis earlier this year. The new law; The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 comes with solid support after a consultation on property condition in the private rented sector.
The move will help prevent up to 26 deaths and 670 injuries a year.