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Electrical Safety Services

Site Inspection

‘The success of any business is based on its ability to maintain an efficient and effective production schedule’

Australian Electrical Services can provide you with peace of mind through our annual Electrical Equipment & Safety Inspection. This free site inspection creates an opportunity for you to maintain production and minimise downtime.

What is the site inspection about
Electricity has great potential to seriously injure and kill. As an employer or self employed person you are responsible for ensuring the electrical equipment in your workplace is safe and regularly inspected and maintained. This electrical equipment inspection will help you comply with the legislative requirements by taking you through the steps of an alternative risk assessment approach for the inspection of electrical equipment used in the workplace.

Who can carry out risk assessment?

Our staff are fully qualified Electrician’s. This is a person who has acquired through training, qualification or experience, or a combination of them, the knowledge and skills enabling that person to safely carry out a risk assessment of electrical equipment. The person carrying out the risk assessment must know what to look at, what to look for and what is required to make the equipment safe.

Completing the checklist

When completing the checklist, we will identify any specific workplace factors that may contribute to the risk, including:

A general inspection of equipment condition
Recommendations and or Actions
Report Safety issues
Indentify EcoSmart Energy savings

Testing and Tagging

The Electrical Safety Regulation requires regular inspection and testing of specified electrical equipment in accordance with the procedures set out in the Australian Standards.

Testing & Tagging of portable equipment is the responsibility of every company to ensure the safe operation of all equipment.

It is a Company’s responsibility to visually inspect any equipment prior to use, ensure that it is fit for the intended purpose and that cords and leads are run in such a way as to be protected from harm and not present a risk to others.

What does this mean for your business:

Testing & Tagging is the name commonly used for the process of ensuring your electrical equipment and appliances are safe to use in the workplace. In order to make these items safe, one must comply with the strict Occupational Health and Safety Regulations put in place by the Australian Government. The standard specification AS/NZS3760:2003 requires business owners to undertake this safety process on a regular basis in order to meet law requirements.

RCDs

Compulsory Installation of RCDs – Residual Current Devices: New Regulations require a minimum of two (2) Residual Current Devices (RCD’s) to be fitted in ALL residential premises at the ‘Point of Sale or Lease’.

Commencing 8th August 2009.

Thirty-three out of the 38 electricity related deaths in West Australian homes in the past 16 years could have been prevented if an RCD had been fitted, Energy Safety said. Residual current devices detect minute changes in the electrical current balance of a circuit, so that if say a person touches a live part of an appliance or cable accidentally, the RCD trips the circuit very rapidly on detecting that some of the current has ”leaked” via a person’s body to earth. Hence some years ago RCDs were referred to as “earth leakage circuit breakers”.

* Price covers a standard installation only. Switchboards with substandard switches or equipment that require upgrades must be quoted additional to the allocated cost. Australian Electrical Services are not responsible for any pre-existing faults. Any additional work will be charged accordingly.

Smoke Alarms

Proposed Implementation Date for Hard-Wired Smoke Alarms – 1st October 2009