electrical safety
How To Teach Your Children Safety Around Electricity
Every year, about one million children under 15 years old visit hospitals after an accident in the home – many of them electrical. There are things that you can do as a responsible parent to childproof your home against electrical hazards.
Make Sure Your Fan Is Keeping You Safe as Well as Cool
With current temperatures the hottest they have been in a decade, shops are facing huge demand for fans. Listening to the local radio last night, I heard many High Street stores had sold all out of fans and were turning customers away empty handed.
Its Child Safety Week! – Is your child at risk of harm from an electrical appliance?
Child Safety week places the safety of children firmly at the heart of a whole week of campaigning from the 1st-7th June 2015.
Are you risking your life by drying your hair?
A new electrical safety campaign is under way targeting people who use small electrical beauty appliances such as hair dryers, straighteners and curling tongs. Items such as these have a thriving market where 'fake' versions of the genuine products are being sold as if they were genuine.
When did you last have an EICR on your home in East Nottingham?
Your home electrics should run like a well oiled machine, however with years of daily usage without even as much as a look over, how do you know they're still keeping you safe?
Make Electrical Safety your New Years Resolution
If you have yet to decide upon a reasonable New Years Resolution or you have already broken yours – start afresh today and make a New Years Resolution that could save your life!
Is a product recall notice leaving you at risk of electrical injury?
New research carried out by the electrical safety charity Electrical Safety First reveals that many people ignore product recall notices or worse still, are not notified that their electrical appliance could be dangerous.
Would you ignore a product recall notice?
How a house leak resulted in a call to an electrician in Nottingham
This last weekend I had a call out from a customer in my local area of Nottingham. It was a typical phone call that I am am used to getting out of hours and went along the lines of “my electrics are tripping for some reason”.
Why do electrics suddenly start tripping?
Keep the Sparks from your door this Halloween
The traditional October half term break is now under way for most parents up and down the country. This time of year is dull and rain is almost definitely likely to feature in the week off. So if your child is done with the Autumn scavenger hunts and the rain is pelting down outside, then they are likely to be indoors making use of electrical items.