Allen said: \u201cWe welcome the BEIS Committee report and support their call for Government and industry action to address the on-going risk from faulty electrical goods.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have repeatedly lobbied for improvements to the UK product safety system, which is not fit for purpose \u2013 as illustrated by the number of fires caused by faulty appliances. In 2016\/17 alone, they instigated 4,120 house fires, resulting in 423 deaths and injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince 2007, there have been 516 recall notices issued for electrical products in the UK. Given the low success rate of product recalls, with only 10-20% of faulty goods returned or repaired, there are potentially millions of dangerous electrical goods still in people\u2019s homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe flaws in the UK\u2019s inadequate and poorly resourced product safety regime have been highlighted by a series of issues \u2013 from recalls of tumble-dryers to a number of tragic fires, such as Grenfell, Shepherds Bush Green and Lakenal House.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we fully support the BEIS report\u2019s call for Government to establish a single national product safety agency. This is something we have lobbied long and hard for \u2013 and was recommended in an independent review of product safety, led by Lynn Faulds Wood nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also support the report\u2019s recommendation for manufacturers of plastic-backed fridge freezers to use safer materials \u2013 they can pose a significant fire risk and can cause large, rapidly developing fires. Fridge freezers with non-combustible backs provide better containment of fire, whether it arises within the product or something else igniting it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The recent Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) report into product safety and electrical goods, has been welcomed by Martyn Allen, Technical Director of Electrical Safety First. Allen said: \u201cWe welcome the BEIS Committee report and support their call for Government and industry action to address the on-going risk from faulty electrical goods. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2209,178,674,453],"class_list":["post-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-beis","tag-electrical-safety-first","tag-martyn-allen","tag-product-safety","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12607,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions\/12607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}