POST-COVID SAFETY FEATURES
Building a safer future
Electrical Safety First is the only UK-wide charity dedicated to reducing fi res, deaths and injuries from electricity. CEO Lesley Rudd discusses the impact of COVID-19 and future developments in a post-pandemic landscape
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By Lesley Rudd CEO, Electrical Safety First
s I write this, lockdown has been eased and we are feeling our way into a ‘new normal’, although it is still early days to specify exactly what that might be.
However, one change wrought by the pandemic – which I sincerely hope continues to be properly acknowledged – is our recognition of the importance of key workers. This group of people are crucial to our lives and our economy. And it is a group which includes electricians, who are well positioned
to increase their signifi cance in a post-pandemic landscape. One issue highlighted by
COVID-19 is the climate crisis. The reduction in international and domestic travel has led to a signifi cant improvement in air quality, heightening our awareness of the environmental emergency and our need to address it. Today, with electricity increasingly produced from renewable sources, the electrotechnical industry has a major opportunity to be part of the solution to this critical problem. Heating our homes makes up a signifi cant part of our energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Decarbonising heat – reducing and eliminating the greenhouse gases it produces – is essential to tackling climate change. To achieve net zero greenhouse emissions by 2045, we need to heat Scotland’s buildings with low-carbon heating, such as electrically operated heat pumps. Making new homes zero-carbon has been described as the ‘low hanging fruit’ and this
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