Anyone on a work site who works near overhead power lines or buried cables, uses portable electrical tools and leads, or carries out work on electrical equipment.
Electricity gives no warning before it kills. The two biggest site risks are overhead power lines and buried cables struck while digging, alongside damaged leads, plugs and tools left in use.
The pack covers exclusion distances and treating every overhead line as live until the owner confirms otherwise in writing, locating buried services with a cable avoidance tool before digging, visual checks on leads and tools before every use, isolating and proving equipment dead before working on it, and reporting every cable strike however minor it appears.
One hazard, done completely, for the whole firm.
The pack also has a theory test answer key. It is supplied separately to the employer, not published in the pack itself, so the test stays a genuine assessment when your own supervisor marks it.
Available where a customer, principal contractor or insurer wants third-party evidence.
You assess your own people in-house using the pack, and send PHW the completed records. PHW checks the records and, where they hold up, issues a certificate carrying a QR code that resolves to a live verification page. The certificate states plainly that the assessment was carried out in-house and verified by PHW, recording PHW's verification of that in-house assessment. Only records that hold up are certified.
Up to four of your people assessed for competence in one day, on your own site and machines, with minimum downtime. Plus a written safe-system pack for each topic.
Tell us what electrical work, tools and leads your people use, how many people and the site postcode, and we will come back with a quote and dates.
PHW has certificated thousands of candidates nationwide, for multinationals and small firms alike.
HSE prosecutions in this line of work.
£10,000 + £5,487 costs · 2026-05-26
An employee using a breaker to dig ground for security fencing struck a live underground cable, suffering burns to the stomach, chest and arms.
Read the case →£60,000 + £40,000 costs · 2026-06-16
A man playing five-a-side football was electrocuted retrieving a ball after a floodlight's worn wiring went unrepaired.
Read the case →£150,000 · 2026-06-16
An electrician was struck by the blades of a modified mine fan whose blades sat closer to the duct than the required safety clearance.
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