For your safety’s sake, and that of your family, it’s worthwhile taking some time to read the following safety tips relating to electricity and gas around the home and outdoors.

Safety checks
EnergyAustralia also recommends that customers arrange for regular safety checks of their existing or newly purchased home, especially where old wiring has deteriorated and become unsafe. Special attention should be paid to all the following aspects of existing installations:

• Service neutral links and the customer's active and neutral links
• Overhead point of attachment including exposed consumers mains that are often prone to ultraviolet degradation
• Structural integrity of private pole As (and other private poles)
• Old hinged wooden switchboards
• Obsolete service fuses
• Old underground service termination boxes and old overhead mains connection boxes
• Private aerial mains, particularly bare mains in bush fire prone areas

• Call EnergyFix or get a licensed electrician to carry out any kind of rewiring, installation of new powerpoints or lighting.
• Use only extension leads with three pinned plugs. That way electricity will flow through the earthing pin, and not through your body.
• Overloading your power points can be dangerous. Use only one double adapter per power point.
• When using a ladder, be aware of your surroundings. Keep your distance from powerlines at all times.
• When painting, don’t remove powerpoints or switches as this could expose live wires. Instead, try to mask around them.

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