Safety

Safety Overview Objectives: State basic safety rules. Describe the effects of electric current on the human body. Discuss the responsibilities of OSHA. Discuss lockout and tagout procedures.

Safety Overview Objectives: Explain proper placement of a straight ladder. Discuss the use of scaffolds. Discuss classes of fires. Discuss ground-fault circuit interrupters. Discuss the importance of grounding.

Safety Overview General Safety Rules THINK FIRST! This is the most important safety rule! Never work on an energized circuit if it is possible to disconnect the power. Avoid horseplay. Do not work alone. Work with one hand when possible. Learn first aid and CPR.

Safety Overview General Safety Rules The OSHA mission is to ensure safe and healthy workplaces. Avoid using alcohol and drugs in the workplace. Avoid walking close to trenches. Don’t jump over trenches, walk around them. Place barricades around trenches.

Safety Overview General Safety Rules Use ladders to enter and exit trenches. Always maintain an outside person to monitor people working in confined spaces. Lockout and tagout procedures prevent accidental energizing of circuits. Scaffolds provide the safest elevated working platform.

Safety Overview S-4 A safety tag used to tagout equipment.

Safety Overview S-5 The OSHA lockout and tagout procedures prevent electrical accidents!

Safety Overview General Safety Rules A straight ladder should be positioned so that its bottom is placed away from the wall a distance of ¼ the vertical height of the ladder where it touches the wall. Ground-fault circuit interrupters (GFCI) are used to protect people from electrical shock. NEC 250 refers to grounding requirements.

Safety Overview S-3 Effects of electric current on the human body.

Safety Overview S-17 A GFCI device monitors both the hot and neutral currents. These currents should be equal!

Safety Overview S-18 Unequal currents may mean an unwanted pathway through a person! This is a ground fault.

Safety Overview One type of GFCI device is a special circuit breaker.

Safety Overview Another type of GFCI device is a special receptacle.

Safety Overview Fires can be divided into four classes: Class A: wood and paper Class B: grease, liquids, and gases Class C: energized electric equipment Class D: metals

Safety Overview Review: Never work on an energized circuit if it is possible to disconnect the power. Avoid horseplay. The most important rule of safety is to think first. Do not work alone. Work with one hand when possible.

Safety Overview Review: A current of 100 to 200 milliamperes passing through the heart generally causes death. The mission of OSHA is to ensure safe and healthy workplaces. Learn first aid and CPR. Avoid using alcohol and drugs in the workplace.

Safety Overview Review: Don’t walk close to trenches unless it is necessary. Don’t jump over trenches; walk around them. Place barricades around trenches. Use ladders to enter and exit trenches.

Safety Overview Review: When working in confined spaces, an outside person should keep in constant contact with the people inside the space. Lockout and tagout procedures are used to prevent someone from energizing a circuit by mistake.

Safety Overview Review: The bottom of a straight ladder should be placed a distance from the wall equal to one fourth the height where the top of the ladder makes contact with the wall. Scaffolds generally provide the safest elevated working platform.

Safety Overview Review: Fires can be divided into four classes: Class A is common items such as wood or paper; Class B is grease, liquids, and gases; Class C is energized electric equipment; and Class D is metals. Ground-fault circuit interrupters are used to protect people from electric shock.

Safety Overview Review: GFCI protectors open the circuit when approximately five milliamperes of ground-fault current are sensed. NEC® 250 lists the requirements for grounding electrical systems.