1. Shop Safety
Electrical Hazards…

2. Electrical Hazards… Even small electric shocks are dangerous
Many hazards include electrocution, fire, or explosions

3. Grounding Electricity is always trying to get to the ground.
If something gives it an easy path to the ground, it will take it.
So if you touch an electric circuit and the electricity will flow through you!

4. Electrical Injury
You can never tell when contact with electricity will be fatal, but it will always hurt.
Electric shock can cause muscle spasms, weakness, shallow breathing, rapid pulse, severe burns, unconsciousness, or possibly death.

5. Electrical Burns
In a serious accident, the path that the current takes through the body gets very hot.
Burns occur all along that path, including the places on the skin where the current enters and leaves the body

6. Electrical Cords
DO NOT USE cords with cracks, frays, or holes in plugs
Worn cords can cause a fire, shocks, or short circuits.

7. Electrical Cords
Never break off the third prong from a three prong plug, to make it fit in a two prong outlet.

8. Outlets Never overload an outlet with too many plugs.
Plugging in too many cords is a fire hazard.

9. Outlets
When removing a plug from an outlet, pull it by the plug, not the cord
Pulling the cord will wear it out quickly and create a shock hazard

10. Other Hazards
Heat and water can damage the insulation and create a shock hazard.
Don’t run cords under floor mats

11. Don’t Let This Happen!