As an employer, you have to take steps to keep a workplace electrically safe. And for this you have to take different steps. Actually, there are so many electrical appliances that employees use on a daily basis. So it’s very important to keep them well maintained so that you would avoid any type of electrical fire accidents and injuries in the workplace. Items like extension cables, switchboards, plugs, sockets and other types of flexible leads must be properly checked on a regular basis. As that might become the reason of causing a short circuit in the building that can be harmful to your employees. Here in this article we are discussing about things that employers have to do to make the workplace electrically safe:
1. Maintenance of All the Electrical Devices:
First of all employers is liable to perform regular maintenance of all the electrical appliances present in the organization. Other than that employer must get commercial electrical installation certificate to make workplace safe. For this they can simply hire the professional and experienced electrician that will do the following tasks regularly:
- He will check whether you are using the correct type of cable connectors or couplets for increasing the lengths of cables or not.
- He will check all the electrical switches or socket outlets and help employees not to overload them by using adapters.
- He will test all types of electrically powered equipment and analyse whether they are suitable for use or not
- He will also check the fixed electrical equipment and make sure there is equipment present to resolve electricity issues.
2. Reduce the Voltage of Power to Control the Risk:
Other than that employers should try to reduce the overall voltage supply of the workplace that will help them to reduce the overall risk level. For this purpose employers should prefer to keep all the handheld and low voltage electrical equipment and appliances in the workplace. So that they might not get affected when you will lower down the overall voltage supply of the organization. Actually, employers should opt for portable equipment powered with 110 volt supply via simple transformer and you can simply attach them to the earth so that you would maximize the voltage amongst live conductor and earth up to 55V.
3. Provide One or More Residual Current Device (RCD)
Other than that employers are liable to provide more than one RCD in the workplace that will help you to keep employees safe in the time of emergency. And also allow you to have minimum damages of property. Other than that if you will have equipment that is operating at 230 volts or even more. Than RCD (residual current device) will help you to provide extra safety to your employees. Basically, you should know that RCD devices are additional protection devices. That will enable you to limit the overall duration of major life threatening electrical shocks.
So in that case you must have RCD’s on all circuits that are supplying current or power to portable equipment. Other than that, these RCD devices help the employer to detect some of the major electrical faults in the wiring of the organization. That allows him to have rapid repairs and keep employees safe.
