Protective Grounding Three Phase Tangent

OSHA Required Tailgate Discussion Topics Hazards Associate with the job Work Procedures Involved Special Precautions Energy Source Controls PPE Required The five topics required by OSHA to discuss in the tailgate. First letter from each topic = How Well Should Everyone Plan

Work Procedures Involved Hazards associated with the job Special Precautions Energy Source Controls Personal Protective Equipment Be sure to record your emergency location and post in a location everyone on the crew knows. Have your PPE and First Aid kit available Be sure your AED is accessible. A safe job begins with a thorough inspection of… Tools Be certain all of your tools are in good shape. Equipment Make sure your trucks are all in working order take time to preflight your equipment and insure there are no surprise. Line/Structure Look over the line and structure. Are there any potential hazards? (Broken insulators, damaged wire, clearances over roads or from trees?) Be aware of your work area, be sure to cover anything you can reach touch or fall into. And anything that can reach touch or fall into you! Discuss all PPE needed for the job and wear your PPE. Be sure to inspect your equipment prior to use. Identify all voltages you are exposed to. Be sure to have all of your Arc-Flash protective gear on. Identify a dedicated observer Working in traffic exposes you to hazards that are difficult to control. Give the vehicles plenty of time to see and avoid you! Follow the manual of traffic control for your area. Slips trips and falls are some of the most common injuries, look for hazards that could cause this. Be sure to inspect and wear your fall arrest harness. Here are the five topics again with signs and bubbles to jump start tailgate discussion!! Click on the icon to bring up a text box. Click on the icon again to make the text box go away Gets the crew involved. Gives the feeling of knowing it is ok to ask questions, give suggestions, see something, say something! The next slides will get directly into the task at hand. Visual, written and audio will all be used here! There are suggestions in the notes as to what to discuss. This will get the Team involved, creating communication channels to open!

Confirm this is the structure you are to perform the work on Confirm this is the structure you are to perform the work on. Be sure all sources of power have been controlled. Confirm this is the structure you are to perform the work on. Be sure all sources of power have been controlled.

Test all conductors for voltage. With an approved tester.

With a stick mounted brush, remove the oxidation where you will make your protective ground connections. With the use of a stick mounted brush, remove the oxidation from the conductor.

With the use of a stick mounted brush, remove the oxidation from the conductor.

With the use of a stick mounted brush, remove the oxidation from the conductor.

With the use of a stick mounted brush, remove the oxidation from the conductor.

Install the pole ground cluster bracket.

Connect a grounding jumper to the pole cluster.

Move one end of the protective ground jumper to the system neutral.

Complete the bond from the pole cluster to the system neutral.

Hang another protective ground jumper from the system neutral.

Remove the second ground clamp from the parking stand of the ground you just installed and move it to the nearest phase. Some crews will go to the center phase first for a shorter path to ground. This is your companies choice. Just follow a set sequence. Remove the second ground clamp from the parking stand of the ground you just installed and move it to the nearest phase. Some crews will go to the center phase first for a shorter path to ground. This is your companies choice. Just follow a set sequence.

Move this jumper to the nearest outside phase.

Connect this jumper to the nearest outside phase.

Move from the grounded phase to the next un-grounded phase.

Ground the center phase.

Place another protective ground jumper on the grounded center phase.

Move the other end of the ground jumper to the outside phase.

Complete the last phase ground connection.

Grounding is completed for this structure.

Remove the last phase ground connection.

Move the end of the ground jumper from the outside phase to the center phase end.

Remove this protective ground jumper from the grounded center phase.

Remove the ground the center phase.

Remove from the ground set from center phase from the still grounded nearest phase.

Remove the ground jumper from the nearest outside phase to the neutral.

Move this jumper to the neutral.

Remove the ground set from the neutral

Remove the bond from the system neutral to the pole ground cluster.

Remove the pole ground cluster bracket.

The job is complete. The job is complete.