The Electrical Safety Council has researched that around half of all accidental fires in UK homes have an electrical origin and 85% of these can be attributed to electrical appliances.1 Product misuse is a major cause of these accidents and the campaign will address the basic and easily avoidable “blunders” that people make when using electrical…
DetailsDASA reported that the next generation of young Scottish electricians will have a safe start to their career – thanks to the Electrical Safety Council (ESC) and the Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (SECTT). At EEESafe we firmly believe in safety and applaud this news. Almost four hundred young trainees are being supplied with free…
DetailsEEESafe are please to have been invited to promote at the Institute of Sustainable Designs’ conference next month, to be held at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. This is an early indication of the interest being created in all that EEESafe stands for. EEESafe can help all citizens in the UK contribute to a…
DetailsWashing Machine models from both Indesit and Hotpoint have once again been highlighted for so-called “exploding” where the inner drum appears to split on high spin and tear through the machine often casing substantial damage. A Watchdog report highlighted a fault that was causing some Indesit machines to explode at the peak of its spin…
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Large appliances account for 42% of household electricity use, says charity. If all UK households switched to the most energy-efficient appliances, this could save tens of millions of pounds a year, according to a new report. Over the 15-year lifetime of the fridge-freezers, consumers would save £360million and enough energy to power 51,000 UK homes…
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THE Gladstone Regional Council is not all hot air when it comes to environmental issues – the waste services department is leading the way in recycling. While many Queensland councils are still playing catch-up, the council has had green measures in place to help save the planet and avoid huge carbon tax bills. An initiative…
DetailsIt now appears that the WEEEEForum http://www.weee-forum.org is intending to foist on the UK, a standard for EU Conformity. The European standards organisations will translate the WEEELABEX requirements into formal EN standards that confer a set of rules for all operators on the market to comply with WEEE legislation. The WEEELABEX project aimed to design,…
DetailsIn taking a brief look at the documents supplied by WRAP from its website called “Washing Machine Product Protocols” which are displayed by some Companies signed up to PAS 141, we at EEE Safe would like to make a few observances which give cause for a little concern. Under the Section Test Procedure, there is…
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