We the YOUTH RED CROSS of Kumaraguru Institutions conducted a workshop “STEP-UP” on electrical safety and precautionary measures to be followed while working on electricity. The main objective of this event is to spread awareness on electrical safety and educate the students.

We organized the event by collaborating with EEE Department Association and We invited our beloved staff Mr. Mohanraj, Associate professor for a webinar session and Mr. Arun Kumar, Associate professor for hands-on session. The workshop occurred on 8th December, 5.00 pm at Electrical and Electronics Engineering department and the hands-on held in Machines lab.

In the webinar session, Mr. Mohanraj gave a detailed explanation on electrical safety – introduction and understanding. He explained more about hazards of electricity like shock, explosion, fire, etc and causes of electrical hazards, management, and prevention of electrical accidents.

In a hands-on session, we took our participants to the machines lab and Mr. Arun Kumar took on the session by explaining with our home appliances and how to be precautions of it and showed us a detailed view of every component and its disadvantages and how to prevent us from it.

Later, we had a Q&A session in which the participants cleared their doubts.  The event ended at 6.30 pm. We have around 50+ participants who all had their joyful and knowledgeable workshop.

“COME ON! YOU’RE THE ENGINEER OF OUR HOUSE! FIND OUT WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR HOME’S MAIN ELECTRIC BOARD”