Electric Blanket Safety
Pictured with 2010’s pile of unsafe electric blankets are (from left) Alan Hannah (SIC electrician), Peter Stevenson (Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service’s Community Safety Adviser), Michelle Goudie (SIC Trading Standards), Amy Garrick (SIC electrician) and Mari Grains (SIC Trading Standards).
Our 2009 Electric Blanket Safety Road Show was a runner-up in the inaugural Scottish Government Safer Community Awards, hosted by the Minister for Community Safety, Fergus Ewing MSP, in Glasgow on 13th September 2010.
Sergeant Jason Beeston (centre), receiving the award on behalf of the Shetland Community Safety Partnership from Fergus Ewing MSP (right), the Scottish Government Minister for Community Safety, and Errol Taylor (left), deputy chief executive of RoSPA (sponsors of the Personal Safety award category)