As part of their continuous efforts to promote electrical safety, the ESC (Electrical Safety Council) has developed their own smartphone app designed to help you make your home safer.
The app, which is available on both the Android Market and the App Store, provides a comprehensive checklist of items to be examined in the home for electrical safety.
It also breaks areas down into different categories, allowing you to go through your home room by room. The app then further breaks down each of these categories into a number of sub-categories that tell you what to look for in the particular room you’re investigating.
Users can then annotate anything they spot as being a danger, and then view their flagged items in a separate section along with a checkbox that says whether the work has been done or not.
The ESC has also released their Safe Isolation app for the Android Market recently. This app was only initially made available for Iphone and Ipad, but opening up the app to Android devices as well means that as many people as possible are protected.
“There have been a number of prosecutions in recent years which have graphically illustrated the dangers of working when electrical systems are live”, explains Phil Buckle, Director General of the ESC. “There is no excuse for inappropriate live working or inadequate safety precautions. By routinely and invariably undertaking safe isolation procedures, injuries and fatalities can be prevented. The ESC’s safe isolation app has been developed to remind everyone working on, or near, electrical equipment how to work safely.”
Written by Barry Atkins at www.tester.co.uk
