NFPA 70E®: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace®NFPA 70E requirements for safe work practices to protect personnel by reducing exposure to major electrical hazards. Originally developed at OSHA's request, NFPA 70E helps companies and employees avoid workplace injuries and fatalities due to shock, electrocution, arc flash, and arc blast, and assists in complying with OSHA 1910 Subpart S and OSHA 1926 Subpart K.
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A better understanding of NFPA 70E: NFPA 70E auditsNew equipment is added to a facility. Knowledge gained while working through an issue drives change in safety standards. Employees with different backgrounds and from different generations have dissimilar learning styles. Electrical safety is not a static…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Signs of Weakness in a Safety CultureElectrical safety in the workplace is not as clear cut as many would like. It would be easier if boxes could be checked and safety would be achieved. However, a detailed step-by-step checklist is not possible. Although the basic concept of not being…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Being Honest with Yourself about Electrical Safety TrainingReply to this statement if you are capable of being truthful to yourself. I have always followed my electrical safety training. Unfortunately, for majority of us, the honest answer is no, I have not always followed my safety training. For some of us it…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Electrical Contact FatalitiesWith the number of electrical contact fatalities in the workplace being relatively flat since 2012 (average 146 fatalities with a range of 134 to 156), I decided to look into what the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) database provides for the electrical…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Take responsibility for your own safetyWherever there is electrical energy there is a potential for an exposure to an electrical hazard. What makes a work environment safe from electrical hazards? For that matter, who makes sure that you are not exposed to electrical hazards? Is it the…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Impending Equipment FailureHow do you know if equipment is ready to fail? What are signs of impending failure? Who should know what the signs of impending failure are for a piece of equipment? NFPA 70E®,Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace® requires that before you…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: When to Protect an Employee from Electrical HazardsPeople tend to get hung up on whether or not it is safe to work on a specific piece of electrical equipment. Often the hang up is caused by an attempt to classify a task as electrical work or non-electrical work. Working on electrical equipment or…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: NFPA 70E Equipment LabelingSection 130.5(H) has specific requirements for equipment labels when there are electrical hazards present. For some reason, users of NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace have trouble applying Exception No. 1 (compliance with a…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Equipment Labeling is Not the Same as Performing a Risk AssessmentI receive many questions from companies in the process of implementing an electrical safety work program. Can their own employees conduct risk assessments? Who should they hire? How do they know if an organization is qualified to do the work? While I am…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: A Host Employer Has Some Responsibility for the Safety of a Contract EmployeeI have written a few blogs about host and contractor employer responsibilities. Over the past year, I have pointed out many times that NFPA 70E®, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace® has minimum issues that need to be addressed between the…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Employees at Greater Risk of an Electrical InjuryI have written several blogs regarding employees at risk of an electrical injury. Many of those blogs point out that electrical injuries and fatalities are not limited to those solely in an electrical occupation. It has been a while since I looked through…
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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Putting an Employee's Life at Unnecessary Risk Many people miss the point of providing a workplace that is free of electrical hazards for an employee. The main point of the federal law as well as NFPA 70E®, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace® is to not put an employee's life at risk when…
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NFPA 70E Series: Justified energized electrical work – Something to considerWe all know that the primary work procedure required by both NFPA 70E® and federal regulations is that electrical equipment be placed into an electrically safe work condition before work has begun. [Here in the northeast, if the facility or the specific…
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