Articles tagged with "electrical"

Electrical accidents are not the most numerous building safety hazards: but when they do happen they can very easily be fatal, and that is why such care needs to be taken to avoid them. This...

If a building contractor is going to ask its workers to dig up or break through old services, it is imperative that it checks thoroughly that these have been disconnected before work begins....

This is an incident that happened in isolation, during an electrical installation with no other building work: but it carries with it lessons for construction safety. Principal contractors...

One of the key issues for any building safety expert is to ensure that existing services on site have been recorded and mapped, and that workers are made aware of them in detail. This case...

In these columns we frequently report individual failings and misdemeanours on the part of building firms. However this recent court case is exceptional in that it results from not one, but no...