What we do

We work hard to promote safety and good practice in anything related to electricity. We aim to act as the voice of the consumer – that’s you – and make sure that safety stays a top priority. Anything less just isn’t good enough.

This includes:

• Promoting changes in attitude and behaviour by raising consumer awareness of the issues and risks.
• Influencing other stakeholders to consider consumer needs.
• Campaigning in areas of risk.
• Promoting best practice across industry.

As well as running general awareness campaigns and events to help educate consumers about the dangers of electricity, we also run campaigns and initiatives covering specific areas of risk such as product safety, fire safety and child safety. We also have a team of electrical engineers who represent consumer interests on standards-setting committees, including the committee responsible for the IEE Wiring Regulations, and other committees responsible for British, European and international standards.

The team writes popular technical publications and works constructively with the industry in ways such as chairing working groups that write best practice guides, and chairing the Electrical Installation Forum, the answers to questions considered by which are posted on the Charity’s website. The team also works closely with the technical committees of industry bodies, such as ECA and SELECT

Through work with partners, the Electrical Safety Council also provides funding for grants to help vulnerable people who can’t afford to have electrical dangers in their homes fixed.

If you would like to know more about our work, please contact us:

Address: Unit 331-3, Great Guilford Business Square, 30 Great Guilford Street, London SE1 0HS Web: www.esc.org.uk Tel: 0870 040 0561 Fax: 0870 040 0560 email: enquiries@remove-this.esc.org.uk