Maintaining a safe workplace is everyone’s responsibility. This section offers information and tools to help you manage risks and protect health, safety and wellbeing.
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Information about work health and safety and electrical licensing, registration and training.
Learn about the Acts, Regulations and codes of practice we are responsible for and find information on workplace inspections and prosecutions.
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Read the October 2023 edition of eSAFE Electrical bulletin.
From January to September 2023, QFES recorded 47 residential structure fires, eight non-residential structure fires, and 38 other fires that were reported as having been due to lithium-ion batteries.
The director of a company contracted to install solar power systems at a Gold Coast commercial building in 2021 was fined $4000 in the Southport Magistrates Court, plus $1000 costs for an arc flash incident which caused serious injuries.
Please take care and continue to be electrically safe, do your risk assessments and modify accordingly and remember to take into account external factors that could influence your decision-making.
In October 2023, the Electrical Licensing Committee took disciplinary action against ten licence holders.