Portable electrical equipment is a key feature of the modern workplace. Safety surrounding its use and maintenance necessarily needs to be viewed with increasing importance. An issue AIG seek to address in this report.

The prevalence of fire safety remains more crucial than ever given the insight this report raises. Highlighting how, of the 136,600 fires in buildings other than dwellings, between 2000 to 2005 in London alone, portable electrical equipment remained a key cause.

Good understanding of health and safety is therefore a critical feature to any business in its ability to remain resilient when facing potential issues that limits its maintenance of smooth operations.