Welcome to the Electric Vehicle
Safer Charging System
(EV SCS)

Understand and reduce your electric vehicle battery fire risk with simple steps to design, install and maintain safer a EV charging site for users and emergency responders. The EV SCS is delivered as a self-guided online course, plus you can join one of our regular webinars.

Simple steps

Easy to follow data-driven knowledge and no prior knowledge needed

Practical info

Understand the likelihood of EV battery fire at charging and reduce your risk

Built by experts

EV FireSafe with Lithium-Ion Safety (Prof Paul Christensen)

Protect your EV charging site from
electric vehicle battery fires

Electric vehicle battery fires are rare, but when they do occur they present new risks and challenges for everyone.

EV FireSafe's database shows approx 15% of fires happen while the EV is connected to energised charging, with around a third of those in a publicly accessible car park.

This online, self-guided course steps you through our data, increases your awareness of risk and then provides sensible steps to work with your stakeholders to better protect life and property safety.

What you'll find inside the EV SCS:

Knowledge

Do you need approval for EV charging and what do you need to know?

Data

How many EVs catch fire around the world...and how many while charging?

What's included?

Resources

A step-by-step process using easy checklists, templates and posters to improve safety.

Fleet managers and drivers

Raise your drivers awareness and reduce the risk of EV battery fire at work or home.

Apartment, Strata, Body Corp

Data-driven case studies to cut through the hearsay and provide a level of comfort.

Workplace and building owners

Protect your assets with sensible, actionable steps to mitigate EV battery fire risk.

Designed to support...

YOU when working with your...

Building Surveyor, Fire Engineer, Fire Agency and Insurance Company.

How to become an EV SCS expert:

The EV Safer Charging System is an online course you can complete at any time, from any device, by simply following the steps and downloading the resources. Plus, you can also join one of our monthly webinars for information on real-world incidents, data and new safety knowledge.
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All the resources you need for safer EV charging sites

From initial proposal to annual inspections, you'll have access to a massive range of resources, including:
  • Safer EV Charging Checklist
  • EV Safety at Charging Sites poster
  • Placarding and Signage
  • Pre-Incident Plan for EV Charging Sites
  • EV Emergency Response Plan
  • EV Charging Weekly Maintenance Plan
  • EV Charging Annual Maintenance Plan
  • Fleet Manager's Safer Home Charging Checklist
  • Fleet Manager's Driver Draft SOPs
  • BONUS!: Lithium-ion Battery Fire Awareness poster
  • BONUS!: EV Battery Fire Awareness poster

What's in the EV SCS course?

Design, Install and Maintain your Safer EV Charging Site now!

Read anytime, anywhere

Life-saving information presented in an easy to read format you can explore anytime, on any device

Identify & reduce risk

Empower yourself to identify your EV fire risks and take sensible. cost-effective steps to reduce them

Raise awareness

With a higher level of fire risk awareness, work with drivers, engineers, fire crews and your insurance company

Download
resources

Through every step of the process, you can access resources to create a safer EV charging site

Your vital step to building a safer electric vehicle charging site

Introducing your expert instructors

Emma Sutcliffe

EV FireSafe director
Emma is the Director of EV FireSafe, a private company funded by the Australian Department of Defence to research EV battery fires & emergency response. She is also an operational volunteer firefighter.

Dan Fish

EV FireSafe TECHNICAL SPECIALIST
Dan is EV FireSafe's Technical Specialist & EV safety guru. He started his career as a mechanic & became a full-time firefighter 20 years ago. He now has an encyclopaedic knowledge of EVs & high voltage systems.

Professor Paul Christensen

lithium-ion safety
Paul is a Professor of Pure & Applied Electrochemisty at Newcastle University, UK. His work in lithium-ion battery fires is globally recognised for it's contribution to safety.

The EV FireSafe team are

#thought leading | #globally recognised | #data-driven | #safety focused | #evidence based 

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