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Job Site Electrical Safety – A Matter of Life and Death
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Performing the Job Right and on Time is Top Priority!!!! Right?
Job Site Electrical Safety –
A Matter of Life and Death
Scott Forsyth, PE
Senior Engineer
Johnson Controls
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Wrong!!!! Performing the Job Safely is Top Priority!!!!
Every employee needs to go home to their family intact!!!!
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NFPA 70E Risk and PPE Requirements
www.techtric.ca
Hazard Risk
Category 1
Hazard Risk
Category 2
Hazard Risk
Category 3
Hazard Risk
Category 4
Clueless PEs Hazard Risk Category 5
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� Electrical Injury Risks
� NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace
� Job Site Electrical Accident and Injury Demonstration
� NFPA 70E and OSHA
� Company and Personal Liability and Risks
Outline
� Company and Personal Liability and Risks
� 25 Minute Electrical Safety Training Video by Fluke (CD is free!!)
� Benefit to Cost and Risk Ratio of TAB Measurements
� Anonymous Company Safety Program Survey
� Discussion if Time Allows
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Electrical Injury Risks - Electrocution
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Electrical Injury Risks - Electrocution
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Electrical Injury Risks – Arc Flash Burns
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Electrical Injury Risks – Arc Flash Burns
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Electrical Injury Risks - Death
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US Workers Electrical Injury Facts
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Worker Electrical Safety
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NFPA 70E Risk Categories
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NFPA 70E Risk Categories
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NFPA 70E Risk and PPE Requirements
www.techtric.ca
Hazard Risk Category 0
Hazard Risk
Category 1
Hazard Risk
Category 2
Hazard Risk
Category 3
Hazard Risk
Category 4
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Personal Protective Equipment (P.P.E.) Requirements.
Hazard/Risk
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Eye protection, ear canal
inserts, long sleeve shirt
and pants
Arc rated
clothing
Face & Head
Protection
Flash Suit
Hood
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Job Site Electrical Accident and
Injury Demonstration
35 Years of Live Electrical Test Measurements by a NEBB Supervisor without Injury is Proof of Safe Procedures and Practices
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Job Site Electrical Accident and
Injury Demonstration
35 Years of Live Electrical Test Measurements by a NEBB Supervisor
without Injury is Probably More Attributable to Luck
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� PPE: eye protection safety glasses
� PPE: long sleeve shirt and pants – cotton and not synthetics
� PPE: ear plugs
� PPE: flash rated overalls
� PPE: face and hood protection
� Athletic shoes instead of heavy duty work shoes or boots
Live Electrical Demo Safety and
Good Practice Violations
� Athletic shoes instead of heavy duty work shoes or boots
� Jewelry and watches
� Performing live measurements alone
� Inserting both hands inside the panel to make the measurement (current flowing through chest and heart is a killer). Consider a spring loaded alligator clip tip with an integral electrical insulator on external edges that may be clipped on a ground connector allowing only one hand to be inserted into the live panel.
� Using inexpensive and short probes. Alternatively, use long probes with short metal tips.18
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Job Site Electrical Accidents Caused by
Murphy’s Law and Bad Luck
� Electrical fuse or circuit breaker just happens to fail catastrophically while you have the panel door open due to an electrical transient
� Your electric meter just happens to fail while you are making the live measurement
� You just happen to be bumped by another contractor’s employee who was being careless while working and backed up in to you as
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who was being careless while working and backed up in to you as you were making the live electrical measurement
� Just as the panel is opened a loose wire or nut inside the panel just happens to move or fall causing an arc
� Any number of other potential failures or causes while you are making the live electrical measurement that you have no control of
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Worker Electrical Safety & NFPA 70E
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Worker Electrical Safety & NFPA 70E
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Company and Personal Liability and Risks
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Company and Personal Liability and Risks
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Company Safety ProgramFree Resources from Fluke
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Company Safety ProgramFree Resources from Fluke
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Benefit to Cost & Risk Ratio in Performing TAB Measurements
Benefit to Cost & Risk Considerations:
� Just don’t perform measurement because we always have in past
� What is the real benefit in making a measurement such as voltage on a large 480 volt 3 phase AHU or pump motor or Electric duct heater (likely not wired to 208 volt source)?
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(likely not wired to 208 volt source)?
� Cost should include time to acquire and put on PPE
� Cost should consider risk – making high voltage measurement has high risk
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Benefit to Cost & Risk Ratio Should Some “Shalls” be “May”?
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Anonymous NEBB Member Safety Program Survey
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� What is general status of company safety programs in TAB industry?
� Do small firms lack necessary resources?
� Why don’t more TAB technicians use PPE?
� Lack of knowledge?
� Lack of PPE?
Time for Discussion?
� Competitive pressures on man hour estimates translate to shortcuts in field?
� How can NEBB and FEBB help?
� Should NEBB develop a safety training program that can be used by NEBB certified firms?
� What changes can you make to help ensure your employees go home to their families intact?
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