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- ELECTRICITY
- KILLS
- &
- MAIMS
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- Statistics provided by The Health & Safety Executive reveal that, in
Great Britain, over a four year study,
- Injuries to Workers Involving Electricity
averaged:-
- A fatal injury every 10 days
- 10 non fatal major injuries
every week
- 20 injuries needing 3 days or more
off work every week
- Source: HSE Electrical Incidents in Great Britain – Statistical Summary
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- Health & Safety Statistics - Continued
- Contact with Electricity or Electrical Discharge
- and / or
- Contact with Moving Machinery
- Total incidents reported:
- 5,854 for 2002/3 and 5,917 for 2003/4 .
- This averages at 16 incidents every day
- being reported to the HSE.
- Micro-Remlive has been designed specifically to reduce the risk of such
incidents
- Source: HSE Statistics – Injuries to employees by kind of accident,
severity of injury and industry
(Table 8a and 8c)
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- Proposed New Laws - Queens Speech 2005
- The Government will address the Corporate Manslaughter legislation
during this parliament to make Companies, Directors and Managers more
accountable for safer working practices and enable more successful
prosecutions to be brought against offenders.
- There will be no limits to fines
- The courts will be able to demand remedial actions against set time
scales
- Failure to comply will result in further fines and possible seizure of
assets
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- There are three products in the
range
- RemLive RL-4: ‘The RemLive’
- fits inside a control panel or switch and gives
- Visual indication of the presence of electricity
- Aimed at providing warning to technical personnel working inside the
panel
- RemLive MRL-1: ‘The Mini-RemLive’
- operates in the same way as the RL-4 but is only
- applicable in single-phase applications
- Aimed at providing warning to technical personnel
- RemLive µRL-1: ‘The Micro-RemLive’
- Fits through the front door
of the panel and has dual purpose of
- Verifying correct isolation to technical personnel and machine
operatives
- Warning all non-technical personnel in the vicinity
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- Application Range
- RL-4
- 24-1000 volts DC.
- 24 – 700 volts AC.
- 5mA maximum
- MRL-1
- 24 – 600 volts DC.
- 24 – 420 volts AC.
- 3mA maximum
- uRL-1
- 24 – 1000 volts DC
- 24 – 750 volts AC
- 50 Micro-Amps maximum
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- REMLIVE has been designed to make people, “STOP & THINK”, before
testing or working on or near live equipment.
- Life Expectancy - 15 years or more
- Maintenance - None
- Fit and forget: But REMLIVE won’t
- Lifetime Guarantee
- REMLIVE is a proven safety concept since 1996 and current users
include:-
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- Corus Steel
- Proctor & Gamble
- Alcoa
- Hanson Aggregates
- Scottish & Newcastle Brewers
- GlaxoSmithKline - Horlicks
- Kodak
- and many more
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- Typical Installation – RL-4L.I.
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- Making
- Safety Procedures
- Visually More Robust
- and
- Helping Keep the
- Workplace Safe
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Notes
