The United Kingdom has a comparatively good record of electrical safety compared to the rest of the EU, however there are still around 2.5 million adults aged 18-65 that experience an electric shock every year1. Based on electric injuries received in the past 5 years, this resulted in nearly 1.2 million significant injuries (excluding mild pains and unspecified conditions) and there were over 200,000 hospital admissions annually2.
Although many incidents are caused by faulty appliances rather than
the electrical installation itself, a properly-installed and
well-maintained installation could still save lives and reduce the number of serious injuries that occur unnecessarily each year.
It is therefore imperative that any electrical installation work you require is
carried out only by persons who are competent. Here at AEL Systems, all of our electrical engineers have the necessary knowledge, skill and experience to enable them
to avoid dangers to themselves and others that electricity can create.
It's easy to make an electrical circuit work but it's far harder to make
the circuit work safely. We pride ourselves on our exemplary safety record and will use these skills and knowledge to help protect you and your employees.
Making sure you are safe in both your home and workplace is paramount and therefore we strongly recommend that any electrical work you have carried out for you is completed by an electrician
registered with one of the government-approved schemes to carry out any
electrical installation work you need done. We are an approved NIC EIC installer who are the electrical contracting industry’s independent voluntary body for electrical installation matters throughout the UK, provising you with the safety and knowledge that we can carry this work out to an excellent standard.
As a registered electrician, we work to the UK national standard, BS
7671, and will issue a safety certificate for their electrical work to
confirm that the installation has been designed, constructed, and
inspected and tested in accordance with the national electrical safety
standard, BS 7671 - Requirements for Electrical Installations.
If you would like a free of charge full site survey, please contact us and an experienced electrical engineer visit your site and make their recommendations accordingly.
1Conducted by Ipsos MORI using a
nationally representative quota sample across Great Britain. The results
have been weighted to reflect the known profile of the adult population
in Great Britain. Based on a confidence interval of +/- 3.5% and the
sample size of 809 the actual number could vary between c1.3 and 4
million adults aged 15+. Electric shock is defined as a mains-voltage
electric shock rather than a static shock of the type a person might get
from a car, for example.
21024 adults aged 18-65 in Great
Britain who have personally experienced an electric shock that resulted
in injury while at home or in the garden in the past five years,
including all those who experience one or more of the following
injuries: skin burn without scarring, severe pain, bruising from a fall
or severe muscular contraction, persistent pain numbness, difficulty in
breathing, heart-beat disturbances/ irregularities, skin burn with
scarring, higher blood pressure, deep tissue burn, broken bone(s),
angina, temporary blindness, cardiac arrest.