Electrical RCD Toolkit Campaign.

A home's consumer unit - or fusebox, as it used to be known - is at the very heart of the house electrical supply circuit. It's absolute ability to provide a safe and secure control to both prevent and minimise risk from any possible electrical supply discontinuity, malfunctioning or overload is crucial to home and occupants safety.Learning all about the consumer unit forms a major part of studying on City & Guild NVQ electrical courses, especially for trainee electricians starting out on their career to become a fully trained and qualified electrician, competent to correctly undertake all the key domestic install and problem solving tasks.Over the years, many campaigns have been mounted by the Electrical Safety Council (ESC) to highlight the continuing existence of problems with the countless numbers of dangerous fuseboxes in existence around the UK. In particular, the hidden dangers of long obsolete types of fuses, which are incapable of providing instant, complete protection.The latest initiative is the ESC's flagship Plug into Safety campaign, in partnership with leading electrical wholesalers, which launched a special 'toolkit' for electricians on September 3rd. The toolkit accompanies an info pack, which is specifically designed to help contractors communicate the benefits of proper 'RCD' fuse protection to customers. In addition, each pack will contain detachable blank business cards, which urges homeowners to install RCD protection, which electricians will leave with customers after a house-call.It is estimated that there are still 13 million homes - a staggering half of the UK - which do not have adequate RCD protection in their consumer unit, or fusebox, and are at risk of fatal injury or fire. Every year in the UK about 70 people die and 1.2 million are injured in electrical accidents at home. The Plug into Safety campaign aims to reduce the number of electrical accidents in the home by encouraging the installation and habitual use of RCDs.Electrical students begin their training on the NVQ Electrical 2330 level 2 course, which introduces all the key principles of electrical safety procedure when assessing, installing or repairing an electrical appliance or circuit wiring. The obligatory skills training development continues on with NVQ Electrical 2356 level 3. The demand for an electrician's service is never-ending, as the unbelievable high number of inadequate UK's home consumer units demonstrates, and shows very clearly that long term employment prospects are assured.