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Residential Electrical Safety – How to Ensure Progress (2020)

“In Europe, 25 to 30% of domestic fires have an electrical source”

Type:
WHITE PAPER
Title:
Residential Electrical Safety – How to Ensure Progress
Date:
March 2020

In the past 120 years, electricity has become the overarching energy source in our everyday life. Its applications have improved our comfort and safety, multiplying the means of entertaining and communicating.

However, domestic electricity can be dangerous. Specifically, the safety of older electrical installations is a concern in the countries of the European Union, given the low renovation rate of dwellings and their electrical installations. At the same time, the uses of domestic electricity continues to diversify and develop, progressively posing increasingly important challenges in terms of quality and safety of electrical energy used in households.

The safety deficiencies of obsolete electrical installations generally result from the aging of their components, the lack of maintenance and inappropriate usage. The dangers they represent are also clearly identified. The risks of electrification and electrocution are well known, but fires of electrical origin and their consequences are the most worrying.

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To learn more

  • European Data, key figures by country – Sourced and extrapolated data
  • Case Study France
  • Prosiel published in 2020 a white paper entitled “Gli italiani e la sicurezza elettrica (Italians and electrical safety)” resulting of a qualitative and quantitative cognitive investigation that Prosiel commissioned to the Piepoli Institute.