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Energy Safe campaigns

Our safety campaigns are created to raise awareness and activity that keeps the Victorian community safe.

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Certificate of Electrical Safety – Keeping you Energy Safe. Always.

A Certificate of Electrical Safety is a legal document that makes the electrician accountable for the work they have completed.

An electrician inspects and works on a solar panel on a roof.

Show your solar some love – solar safety

Get your solar system serviced every 2 years by a licensed electrician to ensure it runs safely.

A person sits, reading, with a gas heater in the background that's emitting orange fumes – representing the invisible danger of carbon monoxide – and the heater's grill reads 'Be Sure' via an orange glow.

Is your gas heater safe? Be Sure.

Be sure your gas heater is safe. Have it serviced at least once every 2 years by a qualified gasfitter.

Test. Reset. Protect.

Testing the safety switch on your switchboard will protect you from faulty wiring. Learn how to test your safety switch in our video below.

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Electrical DDIY – Don't do it yourself

Doing your own electrical DIY may look easy, but it isn’t. You could kill or injure yourself, your family, or start a fire.

A truck stopped under a hanging bar with 'hazard stripe' pattern – alternating diagonal yellow and black lines – in an wide open rural space.

Look up and live

Powerlines are part of our landscape – sometimes we don’t even notice they are there. With the sun in your eyes, trees in your line of vision or if you are watching something else, you may not see ho

An electrician winces as electricity – represented as a burst of light with sparks – erupts from a panel they are working on.

Never work live

Life’s fragile. Don’t blow it. Never work live.

A person checks their liquid petroleum gas canister that's attached to their barbecue in an outdoor setting.

Know the drill before you grill

Dangerous barbecue fires involving LP Gas cylinders in Victoria can cause house fires – resulting in serious burns and damaged or lost family homes.

Date: 05/10/2024 8:22

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