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Maintaining Portable and Transportable Electrical Equipment

Product: IS815

Featuring legal requirements, risk control and general principles, this publication advises of the dangers of electric shocks, burns, wear and misuse.

Electrical Safety Essentials

Product: OC/329D

Electricity is one of natures most powerful, most useful, and most dangerous forces. Because we use electricity safely all the time, it is easy to take for granted just how dangerous it can be.

WARNING: This programme contains graphic re-enactments of accidents that may offend some viewers.

Contents:

Electricity and the human body
Electricity: general principles
Electrical equipment
Electrical hazards
Working with electricity
Protection, isolation and testing
Overhead, underground and hidden electricity

Approximate running time: 25mins

Static Electricity

Product: OC/315D

This DVD comes with a Facilitator's Guide.

Static electricity poses a number of threats to safety, most significantly the potential for it to be a source of ignition for fires and explosions. Static electricity can occur whenever objects, substances or people move therefore it is a natural by-product of many workplace processes.

This programme aims to increase people’s awareness of static electricity and its potential to result in serious accidents and injuries. The DVD examines the potential hazards associated with static electricity, ways to control static electricity and a number of important safety precautions that should be followed when working in flammable atmospheres.