Recent reminders on electrical safety checks have become urgently apparent concerning qualified electricians to be employed in all manners of installations both domestic and industrial in the UK. Fire crews were alerted from Colwyn Bay, neighbouring Conway and Llandudno to a factory based in Mochdre, North Wales in the early hours on Aug 14th 2009 to put out and control a severe fire which may have been caused by an electrical fault. The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service believe that faults in electrical appliances at the named factory were to cause extensive damage and loss to the factory.
However businesses using Portable Appliance (PAT) guidelines for testing equipment employing qualified electricians to carry out such testing would have solved the concerns of such accidents and faults occurring. The scale of importance in qualified electricians using such testing in all businesses has become a focal point and message sent from heads of fire crews all over.
More questions were raised when a blaze took place in Flint at the Manor Industrial Estate enforcing warnings that electrical appliances were not tested by qualified electricians. The extent of damage caused wiped out the first floor of Harrys Pipes industrial unit and may have not happened if the testing conditions of the PAT were put in place from the beginning. Firefighters are risking there lives in helping to combat fires caused by electrical faults in factories which may have been untested and not in compliance with strict electrical legislation. Safety checks by qualified electricians employed by businesses are an important part of deterring these faults and fire crews are trying to raise awareness to factory and business owners throughout the UK.
