Electrical Safety And Residual Current Devices

EDM number 1072 in 2010-12, proposed by Robert Halfon on 22/11/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Housing and Standards.

That this House welcomes the Plug into Safety campaign recently launched by the Electrical Safety Council, the UK's only charity dedicated to electrical safety, to increase awareness and use of residual current devices (RCDs) in domestic properties across the UK; notes that RCDs are safety devices that switch off electricity automatically if a dangerous fault develops; further notes that expert studies by the industry indicate that over 50 per cent of private rented accommodation lacks RCD protection and that if installed RCDs could prevent up to 20 per cent of domestic fires of electrical origin, over 4,000 annually, from starting and avoid the vast majority of deaths, on average one a week, from electrocution and electrical fires; and therefore calls for greater public attention to be given to electrical safety and the key role that RCDs can play.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.