WHAT’S NEW?
MARTINDALE ELECTRIC HAS SAFETY ALL LOCKED
UP WITH NEW KITS Martindale Electric has announced the arrival of its latest range of comprehensive lock out kits, which have been designed to suit the needs of installers and maintenance teams working in a range of environments.
The new kits starting with the LOKKITBASE and extending to the LOKKITPRO, enable circuits to be locked off once de-energised, ensuring safe maintenance schedule and compliance with the Electricity at Work Regulations.
carry case, ensuring all locking off devices, tags, pen and padlock are always to hand.
With the average cost of health and safety fines trebling over the last year and around 1,000 serious accidents per year at work due to contact with electricity and 10 times as many involving electricity as a cause of the accident, compliance
BCGA HIGHLIGHTS
GAS SAFETY The British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) is calling on those responsible for using industrial, food and medical gases in educational environments to familiarise themselves with a range of health and safety information.
The national trade body says that the diverse use of gas on campus requires a broad range of safety awareness on site, and an appropriate level of training for those involved.
The new LOKKITBASE and LOKKIT2PLUS kits both include standard miniature circuit breaker (MCB) locking off devices and the miniature LOK10 and LOK11 for when access is limited and there is not enough space for a conventional lock. The kits include a PAD10R padlock with a unique key plus a marker pen and tags to ensure immediate and clear identification of circuits, work areas and personnel. For added safety, each lock is supplied with just one key, to ensure a circuit cannot be inadvertently unlocked by another user.
The new LOKKITPRO features the full range of locking off devices available from Martindale Electric and is the ideal choice for contractors and maintenance teams working on industrial and commercial sites. It is the ultimate safe isolation kit providing a locking off solution for all sites and applications from MCBs with integrated test buttons through old style fuse holders, to switchgear requiring a cable lock approach. The new kit is contained in a soft
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To meet these demands, support is available from the BCGA’s extensive catalogue of information, available for free download from the association’s website.
Previously a charge was made to access much of the guidance, which includes codes of practice, guidance notes, technical reports and technical information sheets, as well as leaflets, safety alerts and industry information.
Doug Thornton, Chief Executive of the BCGA, said: “Our mission is to ensure safety in the use, storage, transportation and handling of gases and the respected publications we produce are key to that.
“Significant resources are deployed to bring each of our publications together and they provide an invaluable resource for the campus community.
“Industrial, food and medical gases are essential to the existence and wellbeing of thousands of people in the UK every day and they play an important role in education, in both applied and research areas.
The BCGA says areas for the education sector to consider include gas storage, distribution across the site, safe working practices, PPE, testing and maintenance and competency training.
Mr Thornton added: “The application of gases in educational facilities can vary significantly.
“Some are low-level use, such as teaching welding to future car mechanics, others include very high-quality gases being supplied into a laboratory.
“When discussing gas safety in campus environments, the information relates largely to three distinct groups, the facilities managers who have the responsibility for putting into place the infrastructure, such as stores and pipework, as well as all associated inspection and maintenance activities, the education staff who use and instruct on the equipment and have their responsibilities to look after the students, and finally the students themselves.
“All these groups have differing requirements, but all can access information relevant to them from our library.”
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with Electricity at Work Regulations is clearly a priority for all.
The new lock out kits from Martindale Electric make it easy to ensure all types of circuits can be de-energised and properly isolated prior to maintenance of plant and equipment, preventing potentially fatal accidents and enabling compliance with HSG85.
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