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Rubber Insulating Sleeves and Arc Flash Protection
Rubber Insulating Sleeves and Arc Flash Protection
Rubber insulating sleeves are commonly worn with dielectric gloves in high-voltage applications to provide added insulation from electrical contact for those working on energized equipment. The rubber insulating gloves and rubber insulating sleeves a...
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Live Safely: The OG&E Way
Live Safely: The OG&E Way
Safety is more than a priority at OG&E – it’s a value. Priorities can change daily, but values stay the same and define what OG&E is as a company. Formed in 1902, OG&E is Oklahoma’s oldest and largest investor-owned utility, and over time...
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Voice of Experience: The Value of Worker Training
Many recent articles I have read in other magazines and via social media emphasize the importance of worker training. I couldn’t agree more. It is both important and valuable that employers invest in training for new employees entering the industry a...
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How to Build a High-Performing Team
How to Build a High-Performing Team
I’m really excited to be writing this article for my utility family. I enjoyed all 33 of my years working in the industry. Now, as a leadership consultant, I have the privilege of using my knowledge, experience and passion to help the utility industr...
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Microlearning: Another Critical Piece of the Employee Training Puzzle
Microlearning: Another Critical Piece of the Employee Training Puzzle
Few people involved in helping others learn new skills suggest that doing so is easy. In the electric utility industry – or any industry, for that matter – training typically ranges from the informal, on-the-job variety to more formal classroom-type ...
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Frontline Fundamentals: HP Principle Four: People Influence Each Other
“That night in the city, when you thought I was the Special, and you said I was talented, and important … That was the first time anyone had ever really told me that, and it made me want do everything I could to be the guy that you were talking about...
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Worksite Safety

Using Task-Based Work Assignments to Create Proficient Crews
Using Task-Based Work Assignments to Create Proficient Crews
Preventing accidents in utility work, where safety is paramount, starts with establishing protocols for personnel and equipment. Creating task-based and specific work assignments is an affordable way to establish realistic parameters for work to be p...
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Enhancing Safety for Line Patrol Technicians
Enhancing Safety for Line Patrol Technicians
Sunflower Electric Power Corp. is a generation and transmission cooperative located in Western Kansas. We have approximately 2,600 miles of overhead transmission lines, which we patrol annually using vehicles. While you may have heard stories about K...
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Train the Trainer 101: The Value of a Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan
If you follow OSHA’s guidelines, you train your workers to perform hazard analysis. You probably have a tailboard process as well, although your company might have a different name for it. Tailboards and crew hazard analysis are fundamental leading i...
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Tool Monitoring Smartphone App

Sherman Reilly Tool Monitoring App JoomlaEmerson has announced the launch of the Sherman + Reilly i-press battery tool monitoring smartphone app.

The new i-press app allows crews to track their Next Generation Sherman + Reilly Battery Tools. Using the simple navigation display, workers can view the battery charge, last service date, last five pressure measurements, tool temperature and number of cycles completed with a connected tool.

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