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Safety Management

When Utilities Leave the Pavement: Off-Road Driving Safety Challenges
When Utilities Leave the Pavement: Off-Road Driving Safety Challenges
The need to safely access hard-to-reach areas continues to be a struggle in numerous industries, including utilities. Historically, people have pushed the limits of machinery and designed better tools in attempts to access such areas. In the early da...
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Empowering Employees to Take Care of Themselves
Empowering Employees to Take Care of Themselves
Sergio is repairing equipment at a power station when he feels a twinge of discomfort in his lower back. Per company policy, he informs his supervisor. What happens next is likely to have a critical impact on the outcome for Sergio and his employer.L...
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Voice of Experience: Understanding Induced Voltage
It has taken the electric utility industry many years to understand induced voltage. When I started working in the 1960s, it was explained to me that voltage remaining on de-energized lines was static voltage that had to be bled off or else it could ...
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Solving the Safety Culture Puzzle
Solving the Safety Culture Puzzle
Have you ever thought about the similarities between solving a puzzle and transforming a safety culture? For one thing, the challenges of solving a puzzle – no matter if it’s a jigsaw puzzle, a Rubik’s Cube, a riddle or a maze – range from simple to ...
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Frontline Fundamentals: HP Principle Three: You Cannot Outperform Your Organization
What happens to a saltwater fish if we put it in fresh water? No matter what that fish does, no matter how well it can swim, no matter how strong it is and no matter how hard it tries, it cannot survive because we put it in the wrong environment.When...
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Overcoming the Effects of Short-Service Employees
Overcoming the Effects of Short-Service Employees
“Are you calling his family, or do you want me to?” the superintendent asked. The project safety manager replied, “I’ll call his emergency contact after I find out where the ambulance is heading. Can you call the division manager and give her an upda...
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Innovative Fire Suppression Solutions for System and Worker Safety
Innovative Fire Suppression Solutions for System and Worker Safety
For over 100 years, PECO – a Pennsylvania utility and member of the Exelon utility family – has been supplying electricity and natural gas to customers across southeastern Pennsylvania, including those in Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs. PEC...
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Key Concepts of an Insulate and Isolate Program
Key Concepts of an Insulate and Isolate Program
Most utilities and contractors that perform work on energized conductors use some form of cover-up program or process. Culture plays a big part in how we currently cover for protection. When a new lineworker joins the crew, that person learns the way...
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Using Technology to Eliminate Aerial Device Overloads
Using Technology to Eliminate Aerial Device Overloads
Knowing bucket capacity and understanding how to read a jib load chart are two critical elements of aerial device operation. While both tasks are fairly straightforward, it is crucial to stay within the allowable capacity of the unit. The platform ca...
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