Five to ten times per day, an electrical arc-flash accident occurs that seriously injures or kills someone in the United States. Standards such as NFPA 70E and electrically safe work practices are now in place to reduce these accident statistics, and OSHA enforces these published safety standards. Electrical accidents are devastating to the affected workers and their families, and they can have very damaging financial consequences to the worker’s employer and its liability insurers.
The general theme for this month’s IAEI News is safety; and when most electrical people talk safety, they think of personnel safety and safety in the work place, OSHA and NFPA 70E. And why not, after all electricity is dangerous and if you’re not careful working with it you can get hurt. What sometimes is pushed to the background is the big picture, the fundamental reason for our careers as electrical inspectors—protecting persons and property from the hazards of electricity. Sound familiar? It should, look at 90.1 of the NEC. If we do our jobs well, people really don’t have to worry about their wiring when they go to sleep at night or when they go to work in the morning.
What Price for Life? Code Adoption: Ohio's Fight for Electrical Safety by Tim McClintock
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is the leading advocate of fire prevention and is an authoritative source on public safety.1 The National Electrical Code, one of the 300 codes and standards published by NFPA, is a true consensus based code process. Changes are not made to the National Electrical Code unless such changes are substantiated by logical reasoning, research, data, and statistics that promote the practical safeguarding of persons and property from hazards arising from the use of electricity. Read more >>>
Five to ten times per day, an electrical arc-flash accident occurs that seriously injures or kills someone in the United States. Standards such as NFPA 70E and electrically safe work practices are now in place to reduce these accident statistics, and OSHA enforces these published safety standards. Electrical accidents are devastating to the affected workers and their families, and they can have very damaging financial consequences to the worker’s employer and its liability insurers.
