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Incident Prevention contains utility safety and operations articles written by industry experts specifically for utilities, contractors and communication providers. The iP audience has grown to rely on our valuable information. Readers appreciate the concise format as Incident Prevention is an "all content - no fluff" publication. Advertising sponsors achieve high visibility and benefit from supporting the critical information iP provides.
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Frontline Utility Leadership™ is a highly interactive and engaging educational series developed by industry experts for next generation Frontline Utility Leaders.

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Learn about iP Utility Safety Conference & Expo and hear attendees' feedback about the industry's leading education event for safety, training & ops professionals.

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Safety Management

Secondary FR Garments: Practical Solutions for Protection
Cleanup of potentially hazardous materials and flammable contaminants can sometimes be a part of an electrical job. When workers arrive on a scene, they cannot always be sure of the exposures or contaminants they will face. In electrical work, it cou...
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Safety Concerns When Working In and Around Manholes and Vaults
Some utilities – including electric, cable and communications providers – have had both underground and overhead applications for many years. However, more and more of these utilities now are either primarily installing their services underground or ...
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Train the Trainer 101: Practical Aviation for Power-Line Applications
It was a little over 40 years ago that a Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot in Florida made the first live-line contact with a live transmission circuit, bringing a quantum leap for power-line applications using helicopter methods. The FAA regulates wh...
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Leadership Development

Frontline Fundamentals: Measure What You Want
Imagine this scenario: A worker seriously cuts his nose on the job. The laceration causes part of his nose, at the base of the nostril, to partially separate from his face. The worker glues his nose back together with super glue to prevent going to t...
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Overcoming the Effects of Rapid Growth
Once upon a time, there was a construction company that did great work. The employees delivered their projects on time without change orders, and they completed them without harming people or the environment. All their happy clients gave them more an...
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Frontline Fundamentals: Organizational Culture: What Caves Can Teach Us
If you were in a cave and someone yelled “Watch out for that stalagmite!” would you look up or down? If you said down, you are correct. Both stalagmites and stalactites are formed in caves by mineral deposits from trickling water. Stalactites result ...
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Worksite Safety

Understanding Hypothermia in the Outdoor Work Environment
Outdoor workers – including lineworkers and communications technicians – routinely work in hazardous environments. Most of these hazards are well-recognized and understood by the workers and their management, but that is not always the case with cold...
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Overcoming Barriers to Crane and Rigging Skills Development
The utility industry has high expectations for employing safe work practices and readily invests in equipment and training. Maintaining a workforce with the right skills is a herculean task. Crane operation and rigging skills development presents gre...
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October 2017 Q&A
Q: We have gotten mixed advice from our colleagues at other utilities and can’t decide whether or not civil workers digging a foundation by hand in a hot substation should be required to wear arc protective clothing. They are inside the fence but in ...
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Buckingham Black Climber Kit JOOMLABuckingham Manufacturing’s BuckAlloy Black Climber Kit was developed after listening to customers who wanted a black climber. Given the interest in this type of kit, Buckingham developed a new climber kit to bring all the features of the popular BuckAlloy climbers into one kit.

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