The significance of electrical safety testing and inspections cannot be understated. Majority of business operations are fully dependent on electricity, most of us tend to overlook electrical safety.
Electrical hazards related to the use of electrical installations is the cause of thousands of injuries and even fatalities around the world every year, whether because of poor design, inadequate maintenance, or unintended use. Care Labs offer electrical safety inspection for all types of electrical installations.
Our electrical safety inspection services performed by experienced professionals to ensure conformity with relevant codes, standards, and regulations.
Electrical safety testing and inspection is conducted to evaluate and assess the potential risks of electrical hazards to consumers when using their system.
Once you realize the potential dangers of electrical mishaps by conducting safety testing & inspection, you will know level of the risks and appropriate steps to control it.
Why is Electrical Safety Inspection Important?
An electrical safety inspection provides a comprehensive examination of the entire electrical installations, ensuring all wires, systems, and equipment in adherence with the safety standards.
Major benefit enormously from electrical safety testing & inspections are:
- Achieve compliance with relevant national/ global regulation and standards
- Meet safe workplace environment to ensure the health & safety of your facility
- Discover and eliminate and problems in the facility early on
- Avoid expensive equipment replacement
- Reduce the risk of expensive litigation for hazards caused by your electrical installation
One of the crucial things to keep your establishment safe from electrical hazards is by having your electric installations tested and inspected regularly. A periodic certified electrical safety inspection will:
- Uncover potential fire hazards and electric hazard risks
- Discover any inferior or faulty electrical work
- Reveal problems or absence of appropriate grounding system in your facility
- Identify old or outdated wiring
- Spot erratic operating behavior of electrical equipment
- Prevention against electrical surges that can cause a malfunction in components and short circuits
- Elimination of short circuit fires through close examination
- Elimination of electric shocks through inspection
Obligations Employer for Health and Safety in Mexico:
What health and safety concerns should employers consider?
The Mexican industrial health and safety regulations establishes a general obligation to promote employee health and safety and specific duties that mentioned from numerous laws. It frames an employer responsibility to make amends for working related fatality and disability.
These regulations push employers to:
- Maintain safety and health programs
- Maintain compliance-verification systems
- Ensure accurate equipment and substance controls
- Assist venture of joint committees
- Provide training and information about risks for worker
- Allow labor inspections
- Provide information and reports to authorities
Penalties for Industries due to Health and Safety Violations in Mexico:
The Office of Labor Inspection which is part of the STPS, is responsible body for enforcement of health and safety regulations in federally regulated industries.
Employers who violate these safety codes, and declining inspection access to their facilities, are subject to penalties of up to 20,000 times the general minimum wage for that local. If violation continues, the authority can order a shutdown of the facility
Penalty recommendations are forwarded from inspection authorities to a special STPS- Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare department. Employers have a right to respond to legal charges.
In Mexico, first-violation penalties are seldom imposed. Penalties typically only occur for looming dangers or failure to correct previously highlighted issues.
Steps in Electrical Safety Inspection:
- Submission of plans
- Review of plans
- Permit issue
- Underground inspection
- Rough wiring inspection
- Intermediate inspection
- Final inspection
Benefits of Electrical Safety Inspection:
- Conformity with legislation
- Enhanced standards of safety
- Efficient use of resources
- Clarification of obligations for electrical safety
- Identifying and eliminating electrical risks
- Ensure the durability of costly electrical equipment
- Improves power quality of the electrical network
- Ensure regulatory and industry safety best practices are followed.
- Get a single point of contact for all your queries throughout the project life cycle
- Care Labs detailed study and analysis report will assist your professionals to find any risks or general wear and tear that could affect your safety
The reliability of electrical installations is critical to keeping your business running smoothly. Our electrical professionals utilize some of the best practices to ensure that performance isn’t compromised.
Book your electrical safety inspection or get a quote today by contacting us!
