Just Like the Real Thing: Training the Next Generation of Lineworkers
The Missouri Valley JATC offers comprehensive training at its new state-of-the-art facility.
Containing Contagions in Close Quarters
Pandemic preparation is nothing new. In fact, I have been telling employers since the 1980s that a pandemic plan is one of the business/safety mechanisms they should have in place. It’s just good practice to address and interrupt a contagion that could potentially immobilize the employer’s workfo…
December 2021 – January 2022 Q&A
Incident Prevention magazine still receives many questions about the different facets of equipotential bonding. In this installment of Q&A, we provide detailed answers to several of the most frequent questions in an effort to help the industry better understand and resolve these issues for th…
Frontline Utility Leadership – The Hurdle
By David McPeak
By David McPeak
Utility Business Media, Inc. publisher of Incident Prevention Magazine is excited to announce the publication of Frontline Leadership – The Hurdle written by Incident Prevention Institute’s (iPi) Director of Professional Development, David McPeak. This book is based on iPi’s popular Frontline leadership training program and is a must read for utility industry leaders. Learn More
Actionable Safety: Modeling Change for Line Crews
Demonstrating simple strategies for teams to practice can begin to effect behavioral changes that improve safety.
Just Like the Real Thing: Training the Next Generation of Lineworkers
The Missouri Valley JATC offers comprehensive training at its new state-of-the-art facility.
3 Keys to Transforming Safety and Organizational Performance
Utility organizations have an opportunity to transform their safety and organizational performance by adopting a proven strategy and approach. Engaging in these activities can help companies manage all types of risk holistically.
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Security in the Field: A Largely Unnoticed Need
It’s time for worker security to receive the same attention as worker safety.
Electrical Arc Flash and Shock Hazards for Fall Protection Using ASTM F887
Electrical Arc Flash and Shock Hazards for Fall Protection Using ASTM F887
The standard helps to ensure equipment safety in multihazard environments.
Managing Risk Through Cognitive Impairment Testing
Utility safety professionals have the duty to ensure a safe workplace for all employees. If that due diligence pays off, the result is consistently having few or no injuries on OSHA 300 forms year after year.
But no matter how well a safety program functions, incidents never completely stop occurring.
Are Your Lessons Learned Making Your Workers Safer?
Reports of the incident travel like lightning through the company. There are no real details yet, just a statement that at 10 a.m. today, an employee of The Big City Project was seriously injured on the job.
The event soon becomes the subject of coffee break conversations. “We’ve had a lot of serious incidents lately” seems to be the consensus.
Electrical Arc Flash and Shock Hazards for Fall Protection Using ASTM F887
Electrical Arc Flash and Shock Hazards for Fall Protection Using ASTM F887
The standard helps to ensure equipment safety in multihazard environments.
Managing Risk Through Cognitive Impairment Testing
Utility safety professionals have the duty to ensure a safe workplace for all employees. If that due diligence pays off, the result is consistently having few or no injuries on OSHA 300 forms year after year.
But no matter how well a safety program functions, incidents never completely stop oc…
Are Your Lessons Learned Making Your Workers Safer?
Reports of the incident travel like lightning through the company. There are no real details yet, just a statement that at 10 a.m. today, an employee of The Big City Project was seriously injured on the job.
The event soon becomes the subject of coffee break conversations. “We’ve had a lot of …
Just Like the Real Thing: Training the Next Generation of Lineworkers
The Missouri Valley JATC offers comprehensive training at its new state-of-the-art facility.
Just Like the Real Thing: Training the Next Generation of Lineworkers
The Missouri Valley JATC offers comprehensive training at its new state-of-the-art facility.
3 Keys to Transforming Safety and Organizational Performance
Utility organizations have an opportunity to transform their safety and organizational performance by adopting a proven strategy and approach. Engaging in these activities can help companies manage all types of risk holistically.
A Lineworker’s Three Safety Superpowers
Workplace safety requires each of us to do our part to keep ourselves and our co-workers free from injury and illness. To meet this goal, we must understand the tools we have and know how to use them. Let’s look at a lineman’s life, for example. He can climb poles, float through the air in a buck…
Creating a Culture of Safety Through Elite Leadership
Leaders play a pivotal role in creating a safe work environment that brings out the best in their people and produces quality results. And this doesn’t just mean leaders at the top but at every level of the organization. Leadership isn’t a difference maker – it is the difference maker.
Worksite Safety
Lineworkers and Line-Clearance Workers: Understanding Their Similarities and Differences
Everyone in the utility sector should familiarize themselves with the relationship between these two work groups.
Actionable Safety: Modeling Change for Line Crews
Demonstrating simple strategies for teams to practice can begin to effect behavioral changes that improve safety.
A Historical Review of Workplace Safety in the U.S.
While OSHA may sometimes make it difficult for businesses to do business, their rules are necessary for the safety of the American workforce.
OSHA Electric Power Standards – Simplified | Part 6
De-energizing Lines and Equipment for the Protection of Employees
It’s critical for workers to understand the process of de-energizing lines and equipment to hold them clear.
Actionable Safety: Modeling Change for Line Crews
Demonstrating simple strategies for teams to practice can begin to effect behavioral changes that improve safety.
A Historical Review of Workplace Safety in the U.S.
While OSHA may sometimes make it difficult for businesses to do business, their rules are necessary for the safety of the American workforce.
OSHA Electric Power Standards – Simplified | Part 6
De-energizing Lines and Equipment for the Protection of Employees
It’s critical for workers to understand the process of de-energizing lines and equipment to hold them clear.
Plan on Going Home Tonight
Do you plan on going home tonight?
It’s probably something you don’t really consider as you go about your day. And if someone asked you, you might think, “What a weird question,” and then say, “Yes, of course.”
But stop for a moment. Think about those words: Do you plan on going home tonight? You come to work, you do the job, and then you walk back out that door to go home. But in between entering and leaving, you did what? Hoped you would make it home?
Hope is not a plan. In fact, not having a plan is exactly what puts us on the path to an accident. So often we hear someone say, “I w…
Lidia Dilley Jacobson
Creating Good Safety Habits
A journeyman lineman is aloft in his bucket, helping a co-worker install a new transformer on a utility pole. For a second, his mind wanders to the argument he had last night with his wife. Then, suddenly, he hears his co-worker asking for help repositioning the transformer, which is now suspende…
Luis Ortega, CUSP Emeritus
Strategies to Handle Workplace Conflict
“Jack, the people issues are just getting to be too much,” the foreman said. “If it’s not the landowners and members of the public throwing fits and coming into the work zones, it’s our own people getting into conflicts. At best it’s a distraction that steals our focus, and at it’s worst it becom…
Jesse Hardy, CSP, CIT, CUSP
Getting Shocked on a Structure?
Jim Vaughn, CUSP
Avoid Injury When Lifting and Moving Objects
Jesse Hardy, CSP, CIT, CUSP
Powerful Safety Messages: Spoken and Silent
Patricia Fischer, CSP, CUSA
Battling Invisible Distractions
Jeffrey Sullivan
The End of the Day
Bob Dunderdale, CUSP
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