I learn this morning that the NSW Fireplace and Rescue have at the moment reported that there have been 45 fires instantly associated to lithium batteries because the starting of the 2024 12 months.

 Sadly additionally two individuals have misplaced their lives within the fires and presumably a 3rd but to be confirmed.

The truth is that Lithium batteries are in lots of objects at the moment and we have to personally handle the danger.

It seems to me that almost all of the fires happen in cheaper home equipment the place the battery administration system just isn’t what it should be. I don’t depart any batteries on cost in a single day and have issues like energy instrument battery chargers on time clocks in order that they flip off at evening.

The opposite large challenge is having ample smoke detectors in your house. I wrote about this solely just lately. I connect a hyperlink right here to the article wherein I clarify the system I settled on after lots of analysis.

I do know that lots of golf golf equipment have issued directives that golf buggies can not be charged on the course. Whereas this improves the danger administration for the membership it solely strikes the issue to individuals’s properties which causes me grave concern particularly if you hear of the variety of fires (not essentially all associated to golf buggy batteries) which were reported in NSW alone.

Earlier this 12 months, I went to the LMI School and LMI RiskCoach groups and requested if they might put collectively a brief course on the dangers related to the batteries. They had been one step a head of me and so they suggested they’d researched the subject and had a course already uploaded on the LMI School Persevering with Skilled Improvement Portal. Properly achieved to all these concerned.