Abstract: An electronic safety device for automatically interrupting the supply of electric current to a heating resistor of an iron at the end of a predetermined interval of non-use, comprising a movable body adapted to control a position of contacts of an associated switch so that at least one opening-closing sequence of the switch contacts is obtained upon displacement of the movable body. Associated with the switch is a resistor bridge supplied with a rectified voltage E and comprising a first resistor R.sub.1 and a second resistor R.sub.2 in series with the switch contacts. A capacitor is connected to the terminals of resistor R.sub.2, a voltage V.sub.o being collected at the terminals of said resistor R.sub.1 and being applied to one input of a counter which is reset to zero each time voltage V.sub.o is higher than E/2, that is, upon closing of the contacts. The counter is connected to an input of a comparator for transmitting a voltage V.sub.1 when the counter attains a predetermined counting threshold.