Electrical Safety
Ensure the safety of your family where it matters most – within the walls of your own home, courtesy of our Thompson Electrical Safety Report.
Prioritise electrical safety, a critical aspect when it concerns your family and home. Switchboard malfunctions pose significant risks, ranging from severe injuries to devastating house fires and even fatalities.
If your home predates 2018, chances are high that your switchboard isn't in compliance with the latest regulations, making it unsafe. Moreover, it's crucial to replace smoke alarm batteries annually and the alarms themselves every 10 years.
Ask yourself: Did you undergo an Electrical Safety Check when you purchased your home? When was the last time your home underwent an Electrical Safety assessment?
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The duration of these tests and inspections is estimated to be around 2 hours. Power to the property will be temporarily turned off during these checks, and our technician will require unobstructed access to all power points, switches, light fittings, appliances, and the switchboard.
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40% of house fires in NSW each year are caused by electrical faults and electrical appliances. This means up to 1800 house fires each year could have been prevented by getting the wiring checked by a licensed electricianlaunch and having safety switches installed.
Usually, properties built during or after the year 2000 will have safety switches installed. For properties built before the year 2000, it’s strongly recommended that you ask a licensed electrician to check.
Test safety switches twice a year to make sure they’re working properly to prevent the deadly risks of electric shock and fire.
Safety switches protect you when an electrical fault is detected. They monitor the flow of electricity through a circuit. If there is a leakage of current, they turn off the electricity in a fraction of a second and protect you from serious electric shock.
Also known as Residual Current Devices (RCDs), safety switches also protect against the most common cause of deadly electric shock – where electricity passes through the body to earth.
If your home was built more than 10 or 20 years ago, your wiring may start to become a significant risk.
Smoke alarms need to have their battery's changed every 12 months and they need to be replaced if they are older than 10 years old.
Electrical installation work must be done by a licensed electrician
Electricians are required to provide you with a uniquely numbered Certificate of Electrical Safety (COES) to show that the work has been tested and complies with the regulations.
The only way to be sure that the electrical wiring in your home is not a risk to you and your family is to have a qualified electrician inspect the wiring in your home.
Source: Services NSW
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Only working smoke alarms save lives.
Fires are fast. A small fire can spread to an entire room in minutes.
Without a smoke alarm a fire is more likely to damage or destroy your property. It is also more likely to cause serious injury or death. When you are asleep you lose your sense of smell. A working smoke alarm will wake you if there is smoke.
You've updated your bedrooms with the latest tech and furniture, but have you considered that the most important item is a smoke alarm?
Smoke alarms are compulsory in every home.
By law, all residential properties must have working smoke alarms complying with Australia Standards AS 3786.
Residential homes constructed after 1 August 1997, or homes which have undergone a major renovation or extension, must have smoke alarms
connected to 240-volt mains power with battery backup.
Residential homes constructed before 1 August 1997 may have battery-operated smoke alarms.
Residential homes constructed after 1 May 2014, or homes which have undergone a major renovation or extension, must have smoke alarms
interconnected (if there is a requirement for more than one smoke alarm).
Your building surveyor should indicate the location and number of smoke alarms required on the plans for your new home or building works.
Source: Fire and Rescue Website