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INTRODUCTION
DITION
Educating the Electrical Industry
Articles in this digital edition focus on the Electrical Safety Program and five related elements, as well as arc flash PPE and shock risk assessment according to CSA Z462.
The e-Hazard Safety CycleTM builds on common safety im- provement models to help companies understand how to grow their electrical safety program.
Many of the presentations over the years at the IEEE Electrical Safety Workshop have emphasized the Deming/ Ishikawa model of Plan, Do, Check, and Act. In explaining this to customers for many years, we have developed a strategy for improvement of electrical safety programs. Learning from other companies and especially from worker and management input from our training classes at thousands of companies all over the world, we have tweaked the Deming model to complete the cycle for electrical safety.
Don’t wait for an accident, an OSHA citation, or a complete failure of your business to start using the e-Hazard Safety CycleTM: Envision, Execute, Evaluate and Evolve.
The articles in this digital edition focus on the Electrical Safety Program (ESP) and the following elements, as well as an article about FAQs concerning arc flash PPE:
■ Electrical Safety Program (ESP)
■ Risk Assessment (RA)
■ Auditing
■ Training
■ Incident Investigation
■ Electrical Safety Maintenance
■ Shock Risk Assessment
Several key themes emerge from these articles, and they bear
repeating when any potentially hazardous work is about to begin:
Have qualified personnel complete a comprehensive risk assess- ment. One person person should be responsible for this, but the risk assesment should be done by a team that, at minimum, should include a manager, an electrician, and an engineer.
Once the assessment is done, consider getting an independent re- view of it by an engineer or electrician.
Make employees aware of it in detail through safety meetings where you thoroughly explain the hazards, equipment labeling, en- gineering controls, etc.
Once labels are in place that address specifics of the arc flash and shock risk assessment, observe through interviews, random audits, and job observations to determine whether the intended mitigation of risks has developed as expected and employees are wearing correct protective gear. When you spot deviations from the plan, make one person responsible for addressing them.
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