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The ESO enforces standards for electrical safety and promotes strategies for improved electrical safety performance across the community. Client groups include employers, workers, designers, suppliers and importers of electrical equipment. And, of course, the community at large! The Electrical Safety Act 2002 The ''Electrical Safety Act 2002'' established the Electrical Safety Board. The board gives advice and makes recommendations to the Minister about policies, strategies and legislative arrangements for electrical safety. The new legislation had a major impact on serious electrical injuries and fatalities from people coming into contact. Queensland's five-year average of electrical fatalities per million of population has declined from 3.6 in 2001 to just 1.24 as at 30 June 2005 - well below Australia's national average. In the period July 1996 to June 2002, 65 fatalities were reported. In the three years since, there have been only ten - a clear indication that the legislative changes have been an outstanding success. |
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