About 350 electrical-related fatalities occur each year, and one of every five workplace fatalities involves a construction worker, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA ...

In your plant, there’s a good chance your facility’s electrical equipment is continually being changed or updated (moves and adds), and maybe even improved. Thus, your electrical safety program should ...

Responding is Eduardo Torices, lead applications engineer, MELTRIC Corp., Franklin, WI. Every organization should create an electrical safety program that not only mitigates the hazards, but also ...

Enform in Canada has announced a new guideline and safety resource for managing electrical safety, "Electrical Safety: A Program Development Guide." The guideline is designed to help companies ...

Complacency can be dangerous when it comes to protecting the face and hands or properly protecting yourself from devastating electrical shock hazards. Are your employees fully protected from ...

We often take electricity for granted. We don’t think about it when it is working fine and all our tools, equipment, and appliances are running smoothly. But when we lose electricity, many operations ...

May is National Electrical Safety Month, and the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) is spearheading its annual effort to educate key audiences about the steps that can be taken to ...

Every day, an estimated five to 10 arc flash incidents occur and more than 2,000 people are hospitalized each year, according to The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). With arc flash and ...

Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR 1910.331-.335, "Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices" regulation has been in force for over 20 years. And yet, surprisingly, many Army units ...

Responding is Derek Vigstol, electrical safety consultant, e-Hazard, Louisville, KY. OSHA, in cooperation with the Partnership for Electrical Safety and KEMA Laboratories, recently published guidance ...