ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area National Electrical Safety Month

As you may (or may not know) May is National Electrical Safety Month. Is anyone involved in anything special out there? Just curious what goes on in the rest of the places.

On this issue I have a suggestion that I think is a good one. Every year at this time I get a series of telephone calls asking for my help in promoting Safety by different local Media. They will read (or sometimes sing!) some commercial they have made up with my company name in it trying to get my advertising $$ in the name of Safety.

My suggestion is to write to these people, send them an email (most have websites) and ask for their help in promoting Electrical safety by being careful to get more correct details in their news reports and articles regarding Electrical-Related incidents. They will be informing their readers/listeners better and giving them some really useful information that may help them understand why these accidents happen. I think that most are just 'blown-off' as some freak thing that happened and not many give it a second thought. Most will just probably think that this person was in the wrong place at the wrong time and that's where it ends.

If the actual reason for these accidents or deaths could be publicized (in general terms) it would show that in most cases, these things would not have happened if the installations were performed by Qualified people according to code. How about some statistics on these incidents? Who did the work? It seems like the only accidents worthy of investigatiion and publicity are those involving Bus Shelters and Light Poles.

Does the media near you ever delve into local (Electrical) accidents to determine the actual cause?

Bill

[This message has been edited by Bill Addiss (edited 05-10-2002).]

Bill;
the trade indirectly bears the burden of the unqualified as pertains to incidents,which is rather unpalatable....
i would like to see Stat's upholding work that is inspectable and recieves proper attention , as opposed to those free-for-all enviroments as i live in ( VT)...


we have a number of local rags, the details held side by side after an 'incident' are usually contradictory to laughable extent.

( or maybe it's just me and my 'train wreck' crack's to the rubberneckkers...?)

anyways...
in my small corner of the universe, i will attend tommorrow's safety fair, wear my star of life, and play show & tell with the kids in the rig.
i will not, however, make last years mistake of blowing up a glove (cow's udder, chicken hat..) for a kid, as i ended up doing 50+ for ALL said kids friends........
(much to the ammusement of my mates..)

[This message has been edited by sparky (edited 05-10-2002).]