The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that it will not abandon its system for ensuring that electrical products used in the workplace are safe.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it will continue to require third-party certification via the Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) program for electrical products used in American workplaces and refrain from adopting Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC).
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)DENVER — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited MillerCoors LLC in Golden, Colo., with 10 alleged safety and health violations from two investigations involving the death of one and the injury of two workers. OSHA launched an investigation into the company’s safety and health practices following the death [...]
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Next year we will commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Since its creation, overall workplace fatalities have been cut by more than 60 percent and occupational injury and illness rates have declined by 40 percent. All of this occurred during an era of unprecedented growth [...]
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Simply put, the lifeblood of industrial facilities is electrical power. Production processes, environmental controls and security, lighting and safety systems would grind to a halt without a clean, reliable and continuously available flow of electricity. It is well understood by industrial facility owners and managers, and electrical inspectors that overcurrent protective devices like circuit breakers [...]
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Empirical data indicates that around 80 percent of all electrical interruptions are attributable to ground faults that are a result of an unintentional connection between system conductors and ground. The term grounding is commonly used in the electrical industry to mean both “”equipment grounding”” and “system grounding.” System grounding means the intentional connection of a [...]
(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)The development of NFPA 70E–2000 provides a roadmap for any employer to develop an extremely effective electrical safety program, which if followed, would most probably eliminate future electrical injury and fatalities. I believe there would also be a side benefit of increasing both management’s and their electricians’ overall safety awareness of other hazards as well. [...]
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Perhaps the greatest advancement in worker safety over the past 30 years has been the development and implementation of ground-fault circuit-interrupter (GFCI) protection. Both the National Electrical Code (NEC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have initiated requirements designed to afford a superior level of protection for both employees and the general public [...]
(2 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)Tom had flash burns to his face. Fortunately, he had been wearing safety glasses. What was left of his right arm had to be amputated above the elbow. He was in the hospital for almost four months. The medical care and physical therapy would continue for years. Tom said that he and two experienced linemen [...]
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