David Pownall – Schneider Electric joins EIC
The Electrical Industries Charity (EIC) is proud to announce the appointment of David Pownall, from Schneider Electric UK & Ireland to its Board of Trustees.
Online network launched to connect female electricians
A new online network has been launched – aimed at helping women working ‘on the tools’ in the electrical industry to connect, share views and advice.
Open Circuit has been established as a forum for discussion and ideas by the charity Women on the Tools, in partnership with industry bodies the Joint Industry Board (JIB), Certsure and ECA.
Any working or training female electrician is eligible to join the group, which is on Facebook.
The idea to create the group was inspired the Amber Light Society, a group of female electricians in New York who take an active role in supporting each other and the industry.
In New York, 10% of the workforce in electrics is female compared to less than 2% in the UK.
All organisations involved are now encouraging female electricians to join the group and calling on electrical contractors to promote the network to their female employees.
Women on the Tools’ Business Development Manager, Andrea Kelmanson said: “We believe that the ‘Open Circuit’ network has the capacity to reduce the isolation experienced by many individual tradeswomen, to become a forum for sharing information and ideas, to be a place for making and developing work contacts, as well as becoming a way of enabling the experience of women electricians to be accessed and heard.”
Women are invited to join Open Circuit by visiting www.facebook.com/groups/opencircuit.
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