January-February 2009
Safety Management
Over the past 50-plus years in production settings of all types, training has been largely made up of new employees spending either specified or unspe...
Worksite Safety
Two standards are needed to specify clothing for high visibility and flame resistance. Most companies in the U.S. choose ANSI 107 (for high visibility...
Beyond information peculiar to technical crafts, every person who enters a substation has a common need to understand substation grounding. This inclu...
Leadership Development
Information technology has profoundly transformed the electric distribution dispatching center. Historically, a dispatching center’s primary responsib...
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This month’s Tailgate focuses on what we can do to combat overuse and overexertion injuries. As every utility employee knows, our work at times is hard, dirty and dangerous. The demands of our job require much physical wo...
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A look at an often unheeded danger. Learn more about frostbite and the predisposing factors that significantly increase its likelihood.
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A simple and effective system for ensuring proper fall protection.
The development of an effective fall protection program has long been a tough issue to deal with. Many of the hazards that utility workers face often seem ...
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The essence of safety is preventing incidents from having the opportunity to occur. When they do occur, it is usually the result of one or more safety systems failures. Failures, however, are the seeds of opportunity. Incid...
Identifying PPE Mistakes in Electric Arc Flash Programs
After a decade of electric arc testing, incident investigations and incident replications using electric arcs, a few lessons have emerged as critical in assessing a ...
This feature's title is not a rhetorical question. There really should be an answer-a definitive, widely accepted answer we could all give quickly and consistently. There isn't and we can't, though we try with great confide...
A review of the relevant standards and training that companies need to provide.
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