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Nominations
for VCESC
By David Bibby, Compliance Officer,
Electrical Installation Safety
The Victorian Customer Electrical
Safety Committee (VCESC) is
currently looking for nominations
from Victorian high voltage customers
interested in joining the Committee
and contributing to Victoria’s
electrical safety outcomes.
The VCESC provides a forum for
Victorian high voltage customers
to support and improve electrical
safety in Victoria.
Originally formed during the SEC
era, the Committee exists to assist
High Voltage (HV) customers with
their safety and technical obligations.
It provides a forum for the review
of electrical hazards/issues, Acts,
Regulations, Codes, Guides and
Standards associated with the use of
electricity for customers in Industry.
Where appropriate, the Committee
makes recommendations to ESV and
the Blue Book Committee, also known
as the Electrical Safety Committee
(ESC), and other relevant bodies on
changes to improve electrical safety.
The VCESC also provides
representatives to the Blue Book
Committee. Accordingly, it delivers
a mechanism for HV customers in
the Industry to raise other issues
pertaining to electrical hazards,
installations, HV operations and
electrical work, and ensure required
representation to relevant bodies.
To nominate a candidate from your
organisation, please submit a letter of
nomination including contact details
and a brief outline of the nominee’s
position and experience.
Address your letter of nomination to:
The Chairman, VCESC
PO Box 262
Collins Street West VIC 8007
or email it to:
[email protected]
10
Autumn 2019
energysafe issue 53
Look Up
and Live
By Jonathan Granger, Head of Communications and Marketing
New overhead powerlines safety campaign a
reminder to stop and identify hazards above
and around your area of work.
Energy Safe Victoria is once again
calling on those operating heavy and
large machinery around power lines
to ‘Look Up And Live’.
The annual ESV safety awareness
campaign comes after a year of
incidents, some of them fatal and
all avoidable.
It was a little over a year ago a man was
killed when his tipper truck came into
contact with overhead powerlines while
delivering a load of fertilizer to a property
in Victoria’s north-east. Since then there
have been numerous reports to ESV of
close calls, where trucks, cranes, a grain
auger, even a portable toilet have come
into contact with power lines.
All these incidents should have been
avoided. Follow the simple instructions
of the campaign:
1. As soon as you enter a site, stop.
Get out of the vehicle
2. Look up and around. Understand
the entire area of work
3. Proceed only if safe.
ESV provides a range of merchandise to
support the Look Up and Live campaign
including warning signs for properties
and stickers that show No-Go Zones.
Place your order for free safety stickers
at www.esv.vic.gov.au/merchandise