EeeSafe.com
EEESafe is about white goods repairs with standards in the best interests of the consumer. Through reuse, repair and recycling of white goods appliances, we can look after our communities and offer competitive repairs to a quality educational standard. 
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EEESafe Ltd holds a Standard for Ethical Repairs on White Goods
The Standard is backed by the Trade Association Domestic Appliance Services Association. www.dasa.org.uk It is also supported by Dixon Training, who is the world reknowned Author of the Haynes Repair Manuals for Domestic Appliances. www.dixontraining.co.uk Graham Dixon has been training on appliance repairs for many commercial companies for over 30 years.
EEESafe, with this support, have issued a Competence Based Scheme that consumers can recognise as being expert in their field, operate safe practices in the home and commit to ensuring where possible, that old appliances are given to local EEE Safe Centres, who also follow a compliant process.
The Electrical Safety Council www.esc.org.uk has reported from its research, that there are 70 Fatalities and 350,000 serious injuries annually that are attributable to faulty appliances. It's recognised that some of this could be due to a fault in manufacturing, but it's equally possible that further accidents could be preventable through working to a safer standard of repair by using an evidence based competent and experienced person. It's been widely known that anyone can set themselves up as a Domestic Appliance Repairer, and EEESafe seek to reduce the potential of rogue entrants into the sector and recognise those who have done a great job already and are happy to be more accountable for their work. However, EEESafe is more than that, because it's committed to a sustainable ethic of Waste Prevention and Positive Social Outcomes. If local communities utilised EEESafe DATs, DARs and Centres, then much could be achieved to increase waste prevention, lower carbon emissions, help more impoverished families and potentially lower the cost of repairs.
EEESafe DATs
By committing potential waste to local Centres, means it has huge potential of being diverted from the Waste Stream and offer more low cost appliances to the local community. This actually saves Waste Disposal Costs from local authorities and can actually contribute to savings on local authority rates chargeable to households. The WEEE Directive has meant that UK Local Authorities need to control their weee and EEESafe, by prevention, can assist with this legislation.
EEESafe Centres & DAR's (Domestic Appliance Repairers)
Another great part of the Centres is that in the online purchase process, the consumer can offer to donate the old appliance to the centre, or one that is nearby. Only registered centres will have access to this information and as part of the agreement, they must report to EEESafe the collection and subsequent reuse of the old appliance, even if it goes to end of life.
Centres are further incentivised by offering the sale of New Appliances from On-line national retailers, with the same functionality of offering the old appliance to a local Centre. Centres will receive a commission on the sale of the new appliance, and this should increase the availability once again, of old appliances to local communities where Centres exist.
One final benefit to Centres is the potential additional revenue for the sale of it's unrepairable material to Producer Compliance Schemes, who report the movement of Appliances to the Manufacturers of the goods. Currently quite a number of PCS's are involved in repairing and selling appliances online, or selling them back to the communities from whence they came, so it is felt that this is an opportunity to better the system through the EEESafe model as it would seem ludicrous for a consumer to be paying a premium because an item left is locality only to return at a higher cost than it would have been, if it stayed local in the first place.
The beauty of this whole concept is that the Government can know a lot more about it's movement of electrical goods that are being prevented from waste and being reused. It has obligations to keep the EU informed of this data, so it's a fantastic contribution to helping the environment as well as assisting the Government reaching it's obligations in Environment, Social Justice and as you'll see below, its Educational and job creation targets. As mentioned earlier, based on the shocking figures from the ESC's research, it will be possible to know a lot more about where older appliances are, as long as householders are willing to allow their data to be stored.
EEESafe Training & DARQ's (Domestic Appliance Repairers, Qualified)
To complete the holistic approach of EEESafe, it is shortly going to be bringing out an EEESafe Qualification, with a view to the creation of the EEESafe Institute. Because of the standards associated with EEESafe Centres, they will be able to apply for EEESafe Training Centre status. EEESafe in partnership with Dixon Training has produced a set of Training Materials which are currently being assessed by a number of key partners, before a final decision is made on the route to market. By conducting it's training programme in compliant Centres, the outcomes achieved will be far greater than if done in a separate academic building. Through it's training programme, it will in effect be delivering more available goods, preventing more waste, reducing more carbon and yet still contribute to the sale of new appliances and hopefully bring more manufacturers to support the model. A number of manufacturers do support the standard, but have yet to be convinced of the whole model. Certainly this is a route to also demonstrate to Insurance and Warranty providers, a recognised repair organisation that will contribute to their own Corporate and Social Responsiblity policies.
Fundraising for your Charity
The icing on the cake here is seeing EEESafe as a modern Social Business, because it is offering Registered Charities and Social Enterprises, the opportunity to raise funds for their own organisation. This is done through a registration process and those who register with EEESafe will be given their own Referrer Links, when they point a potential purchaser of a new appliance, to the EEESafe Website. The consumer will be linked to the Charity registered, and the shared commission from new purchases will be donated to the Charity, and not to a Centre in these situation. A Charity cannot be a Centre and also take advantage of this scheme, as EEESafe feels many Charities will be able to operate their own Centres and become potential Training Centres in their own right. Housing associations are a perfect example of this, and local authorities could also engage and thus reduce their costs of repairs to their own stock. Where this isn't applicable, Centres and DATs have a great opportunity to work in partnership. If a Registered Charity does not return it's admin fee over 12 months, it will be returned in full.
We hope this Wiki will assist anyone in understanding the EEESafe Model. Further info could be gleaned from their website. www.eeesafe.com
