Electrical Safety in the Workplace: What are you Obligated to do?
The maze of regulations and rules surrounding businesses can be blinding at the best of times, but the last thing you want to do is break a rule that is easy to put in place. Whether you're a new business owner, or manager of an established business with new equipment, electrical safety in the workplace is one requirement that can be easily fulfilled. While the law does not require electrical testing to be carried out, it does require your electrical equipment to be safe at all times. Electricity will always find the easiest path to earth. Any faults or weaknesses within your electrical installation or portable appliances can go undetected. In the event of another fault developing, this could lead to serious risk of fire, electrocution or death. For example, a 13-amp ring-main without earth continuity could render all metal parts of appliances plugged into it "LIVE" if one item on the ring developed a fault to earth. In 1989 The Electricity at Work Regulations came...