Our essential guide to electrical safety in manufacturing
Your legal responsibilities As a manager, owner or director of a factory or workplace that uses electrical equipment, it is your legal duty to protect the health and safety of […]
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What’s an EICR and who needs one?
Electrical faults can lead to fires, which can cause casualties or even deaths at work. In the UK there are about 12,500 electrical fires every year. Even if no one […]
Always check the little things
With electrical installations as with many things, we tend to overlook the little things, but the little things are important too. Making sure that you have carried out your Electrical […]
Don’t risk your life…
We live in a safer world than our predecessors, but we live in a more complex world. Since the increased presence of health and safety in the workplace, accidents have […]
New Year, new EICR
Do you know when your EICR is due? Is it 2019? Make sure you know the frequency which your EICR needs to be carried out as requirements vary for different […]
Do you know the law?
On 1st February 2016 the Sentencing Council published tougher new guidelines for how the courts should deal with health and safety, hygiene offences and corporate manslaughter. It is important that […]
But I employ less than 5 people?
So, you employ less than 5 people? You may think that this means that you don’t need an EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report). You would be wrong. The Health and […]
Are you compliant?
You may not think that the Electricity at Work Regulations of 1989 affects you, but you could be wrong. Do you manage a school, do you rent out a commercial […]
