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Electricity Can Be a Shocking Experience

The effects of electrical shock depend on:
  • How much current flows through your body
  • The length of time you are exposed to the flow of electricity
  • The path the electricity takes through your body
A severe electrical shock can cause:
  • the heart to contract
  • the breathing to stop
  • the heart to fail
  • the heart to quiver rapidly without pumping blood
  • severe burns
  • paralysis
 
Electrical faults in equipment are the greatest causes of electrical fires in the workplace.
 
How will you feel if one of your employees or another person at your place of work is injured or killed? Can you afford to meet the heavy fines or even criminal charges resulting from the loss of a life in your workplace?
 
Can your business sustain:
  • loss of equipment and productivity?
  • loss of records?
  • loss of client confidence that follows after the event of a fire?
Insurance may help after the event however it will not prevent an accident occurring in the first place.
 
A well planned programme of preventative maintenance, with regular electrical safety checks at its core, is the optimum way to avoid needless and tragic accidents and the legal and financial consequences that follow. When testing is performed by competent and qualified technicians who are equipped with a quality testing instrument and supported by a comprehensive data record keeping system, testing of electrical equipment is not only a critical aspect of OH&S compliance it is a wise commercial investment.
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