electrical safety in the workplace
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Checkout OSHA's workplace electrical safety guidelines that both employee and employer should be aware of. Make your facility safer with Current Solutions PC's workplace electrical safety program that protects your facility and employees against all sorts of electrical hazards. Visit www.CurrentSolutionsPC.com now.TRANSCRIPT
“Electrical Safety In The Workplace”
10 Key OSHA(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Workplace Electrical Safety Guidelines Employers Should Be Aware Of
Data Compiled By
Current Solutions PC
Introduction To Electrical Safety
OSHA aims to provide a safer workplace to high-risk workers such as skilled trades and maintenance workers and to prevent serious workplace electrical hazards.
The following is a checklist that employers in U.S should be aware of in order to protect the employees’ well-being and to reduce the amount of money paid out in health insurance benefits, workers’ compensation benefits and wages for temporary help.
Checkout the 10 following key OSHA electrical safety standard checklist and make sure that you and your facility is safe from any potential electrical hazards.
Item #1Are qualified maintenance employees instructed to make preliminary inspections
and/or appropriate tests to determine what conditions exist before starting work on electrical equipment?
Item #2When electrical equipment is to be serviced, maintained, or adjusted, are necessary
switches open, locked out and tagged whenever possible?
Item #3
Are electrical tools and fixed
equipment grounded or of
the double-insulated type?
Item #4
Are electrical appliances such
as vacuum cleaners, polishers, vending
machines, etc., grounded??
Item #5Are exposed wiring and cords with frayed or deteriorated insulation repaired or
replaced promptly?
Item #6
Are flexible cords and cables free of splices?
Item #7
In wet or damp locations, are electrical tools and equipment protected?
Item #8Are all energized parts of electrical circuits and equipment guarded against accidental
contact by approved cabinets or enclosures?
Item #9Is sufficient access and working space provided and maintained about all electrical
equipment to permit ready and safe operations and maintenance?
Item #10Are employees who regularly work on or around energized electrical equipment or
lines trained in CPR?
Workplace Electrical Safety Training
Make sure that you and your facility is protected against all sorts of electrical hazards with Current Solutions PC’s workplace electrical safety programs.
In our twelve phase electrical safety program, we will train your employees with all the OSHA workplace electrical safety standards.
For more information on our electrical safety training, call us at 914-347-8480, or visit our website www.CurrentSolutionsPC.com.
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