Older people in the UK are disproportionately at risk from electrical hazards, according to research by leading charity, Electrical Safety First.
The Charity has found that a person over 60 is ten times more likely to die in a fire than somebody aged 17 to 24i. And more than half of the accidental fire-related deaths last year in Great Britain were people aged 65 and olderii.
A Plymouth company has been awarded the contract for all the Council’s electrical maintenance work for the next two years.
The £135,000 a year contract has been awarded to SSI Electrical Services for the second time after beating off stiff competition from 21 other local and national contractors.
Plymouth City Council’s procurement process assessed each tender on a mixture of...
A new electrical wholesaler opened its doors in Tavistock this week and created five new jobs.
More than of 30 local electricians joined in the official opening celebrations at Worth Electrical Wholesalers on Lower Westbridge Industrial Estate (just off Pixon Lane) on Friday when it was officially opened to the trade and public.
Electricity is a major cause of accidental fires in homes. Faulty electrics, appliances, wiring and overloaded sockets all cause around 7,000 house fires across the country every year.
Many people have extension leads in their homes, often using four-way bar adaptors to increase the number of appliances that you can plug into a wall socket.
