Electrical Safety

Safeguard your home

Electrical Safety

Safeguard your home Guest Post Are you aware how many people are killed in Australia every year as a result of electrical fires, and there are thousands more people who are seriously injured? Roaches and termites are some of the most destructive pests on the planet, and they have done more than $5 billion in damages to [...]

Christmas light safety

Christmas Light Safety – Time for Some Regulation? I’ve begun strolling around the neighbourhood looking at Christmas lights. Some people have way to much time on their hands – but thanks for your efforts to make Xmas a special time. I try to take the Fun Policeman Hat off after 5pm but looking at the [...]

Lockout Procedures Poster

Electrical Safety

Lockout Procedures – New Safety Poster Looking for some “different” safety posters? Check out the new range from The Safety Toolshed

Thermographic Scanning or IR Thermography

Electrical Safety

Thermographic Scanning or IR Thermography Thermographic scanning (also known as Infra Red scanning) is used as a predictive maintenance tool for plant and machinery. This technology has particular application for electrical systems and has the ability to identify electrical connections that could possibility fail in the future. Thermographic surveys use an Infra Red [...]

10 Electrifying Facts About Your Fuse Box

Electrical Safety

In every home there is a distribution board, commonly called a fuse box or circuit breaker box. This enclosure controls all the electricity that comes into your home. It is the heart of your home’s electrical system. Everything runs through the fuse box, but what is it? What, exactly, does it do? And why should [...]

Cable Covers and Protectors – Prevent Trips and Falls

CABLE COVERS and PROTECTORS V COMMON SENSE Do you know the difference or understand the implications of choosing the wrong product and are they replacing good old fashioned common sense? Cable Covers are a Trip Prevention product, or personal safety product in that they are designed to reduce or at the very least, control any [...]

Electrical Test & Tag

Electrical Safety

Electrical Test & Tag One of the more common questions we are asked is about electrical testing and tagging. Here is a new fact sheet just released by Safety Action Download Here: EXTRACT: Issue: Unsafe electrical equipment presents the risk of a person receiving an electric shock. Whilst the majority of electrical defects (estimated over [...]

Homeowner Electrical Safety

Homeowner Home Improvement Electrical Safety Electrical dangers are well-known among electricians, carpenters and homeowners alike. Most people know that the wrong move with electricity can kill you. However, even with this general knowledge, people continue to be fatally injured every year by electricity. This is especially prominent among homeowners, so let’s take a look at [...]

Thermographic Scanning

Electrical Safety

Thermographic Scanning Thermographic scanning (also known as Infra Red scanning) is used as a predictive maintenance tool for plant and machinery. This technology has particular application for electrical systems and has the ability to identify electrical connections that could possibility fail in the future. Thermographic surveys use an Infra Red camera to view electrical [...]

Homeowner Bathroom Safety

Electrical Safety

Homeowner Bathroom Safety One of the most dangerous rooms in the house is the bathroom. The prevalence of electricity and water in the same small area can cause some of the most injurious accidents every year. However, there are some ways you can protect your family and yourself from bodily harm in the loo. Let’s [...]

Microwave Oven Safety Tips

Electrical Safety

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This photo is from an article about a flat being destroyed by a microwave explosion. Read it here Microwave ovens are everywhere and we use them everyday without a second thought. However, if you have a communal oven such as in an office evironment or shopping centre parents room there are some risks you should [...]

TIPS TO AVOID ELECTRIC SHOCK | The Safety Bloke

Electrical Safety

As useful as it is, electricity is nasty stuff. You can’t see it, you can’t hear it, you can’t smell it but you sure can feel it and it will kill you pretty quickly. What a lot of people don’t realize is that it’s the current – both the amount and the type – that [...]

Cable Protectors Prevent Trips and Falls

Electrical Safety

Cable Protector Purpose – Safety for Everyone By Kari Carson The primary use of a cable protector is safety, to numerous parties. Not only will you be protecting valuable electrical and delicate multi-media cables, you also save yourself from hazards to the people walking around them and the equipment they are attached to. And while [...]

Flood Safety Risks

Electrical Safety

Please spare a thought for all those residents, businesses, Volunteers and Emergency Services Personnel in Brisbane and other QLD towns currently being affected by severe flooding. The images being broadcast on TV are ones that many of us have never seen before (worse than 1974) or could ever imagined were possible. Police say that the [...]

Christmas Light Safety

Electrical Safety

[picappgallerysingle id="209809"] Christmas Light Safety Remember “Christmas Vacation” with Chevy Chase? I love that movie because all the safety references are hilarious, but my favorite part of the movie is when Clark Griswald finally has all of the Christmas lights on his house, after many safety mishaps, and he plugs in the single extension cord, [...]

Latest Safety Directory Entry – Test Tag

Electrical Safety

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Latest company to take advantage of a free listing in our new Safety Directory is TEST TAG TAGTEST is a Melbourne based test and tag business that checks portable electrical appliances for safety. They have fully trained technicians working across Metropolitan Melbourne and in Regional Victoria. TAGTEST.COM.AU offers you a mobile service for your home [...]

Electrical Safety

Electrical Safety

see more There I Fixed It Electrical Safety Electricity makes working in our modern world easier, however, electricity should be treated with care. It is estimated that 600 people die per year of electrical-related injuries. Even in general work unrelated to electrical services, employees too often make mistakes with electricity that result in fatalities or [...]

Safety Tips for Welders

Construction Safety

Welding Safety: Beyond the Shields and Gloves All welders and most laymen know that a welder needs to wear a helmet/shield and gloves, however, there are many more safety precautions that a welder can take to ensure her own safety and the safety of anyone in her vicinity. Let’s look at the safety beyond the [...]

Safety Alert – Electrical hazard from neutral conductors

Electrical Safety

This Workcover NSW safety alert was published following a recent serious incident, where an electrician sustained an electric shock after cutting into an isolated power circuit cable that became energised via a neutral backfeed on the electrical installation. Although the power circuit being worked on had been correctly identified and isolated at the distribution board, a [...]

Risk Assessment – very graphic

Electrical Safety

Risk Assessment

www.ifeltcomfortable.com The true life story of Randy Fellhoelter's close encounter with death.

Dodgy solar panels spark fire concerns

Electrical Safety

Straight after the Government subsidised home insulation debacle comes a report that the rush to install new solar power systems may have resulted in some shonky installations and potential fire risk. An audit of 2000 installations found 3% were faulty but looks like they were all the work of one installer who repeated his mistake [...]

New Cable Covers – Trip and fall prevention

Do you rely on masking tape or mistakenly use Cable Protectors as trip prevention devices in pedestrian environments? Cable Protectors are a load bearing device designed to protect cords and cables and have no minimum height or contrast requirements. They are not designed as or intended to be used as a trip prevention device. The [...]

Electrical Test and Tag Requirements

Electrical Safety

AS/NZS3760 “In-Service Safety Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment” is acknowledged throughout Australia as the minimum safety requirement for the workplaces. This standard applies to all types of electrical appliance including leads and power boards in offices, factories and so on (ie computers, microwaves, kettles, tools and even mobile phone chargers). AS/NZS 3012:1995 “Electrical installations [...]

Are you safe from lightning in a vehicle?

Electrical Safety

Lightning strikes stationary truck Check out the full Safety Alert from NSW Dept Primary Industries (including graphic photos) HERE: I saw a similar thing happen to a dump truck a few years ago when the driver forgot to lower the tray and it hit overhead power lines INCIDENT A large rear dump truck (RDT) was [...]

Safety Alert – Safety Switches

Electrical Safety

View the alert online Electricity safety regulator, Energy Safe Victoria (ESV), has issued this “Safety Alert” to warn the community – householders and business operators – of the importance of installing safety switches in premises and ensuring that all electrical equipment is in good condition and not damaged in any way. The “Alert” has been [...]

Look Up and Live

Electrical Safety

Energy Safe Victoria has issued a Safety Alert for owners and operators of farming equipment who undertake work near overhead powerlines on rural properties. It follows an incident where a father and son died while moving a 25-foot metal windmill that came into contact with a 12,500 volt power line. View the Safety Alert Read [...]