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Tommie Jones

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The BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and ongoing spill is only the latest in a series of dramatic high-profile disasters. A decade that began with the devastation of 9/11 has also featured Hurricane Katrina, massive flooding and destructive wildfires in the U.S.; high magnitude earthquakes in China, Haiti, and Chile with the resulting Tsunami in Malaysia and Thailand; the H1N1 epidemic; terrorist attacks or attempts worldwide; and mass killings by lone gunmen at Ft. Hood, Texas and Virginia Tech. If there is one lesson these horrific incidents clearly demonstrate, it’s the critical importance of proper disaster response and preparedness.

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Combating Overuse and Overexertion Injuries
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...
Safe Use of Portable Electric Tools, Cords and Generators
This month’s Tailgate is a review of some basic safety precautions to take when using portable electric tools and equipment. The focus is on prevention of electrical shock, specifically when using 120-volt AC portable ele...
Communication: The Key to Great Safety
You’re a crew leader or even a supervisor and you really know your stuff, yet your crews aren’t quite following your direction. Something is amiss, but you can’t figure it out. Or maybe you’re a journeyman lineman, ...

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Training Lineworkers
By some estimates, as many as 50,000 new lineworkers will need to be trained by 2016. The Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) estimates that between 40 and 50 percent of the current pool of aging lineworkers will...
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Ensuring Safety at Grand Bahama Power
A fully integrated utility, Grand Bahama Power Company supplies electrical power to the 45,000 residents of the island of Grand Bahama. Founded in 1964 as the Freeport Power Company, the electric utility operation was origi...
Managing Safety
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What You Need to Know About Substations
Beyond information peculiar to technical crafts, every person who enters a substation has a common need to understand substation grounding. This includes things to look for that might indicate problems in the station’s gr...

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Incident Analysis
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...
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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 ...
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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...
Effective Fall Protection for Utility Workers
A review of the relevant standards and training that companies need to provide. ...

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