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.

Electricity at work

Product: OC/281D

This new package is intended for anyone with duty holder responsibilities under the Electricity at Work Regulations, including those who may not have direct electrical knowledge. It is also ideal for site-based apprentices, electricians and electrical engineers.