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A Primer on the Codes and Standards Governing Battery Safety and Compliance

Batteries have greatly influenced the utility industry, and the evolution of battery chemistries has revolutionized their applications. With the emergence of new technologies and advancements in existing ones, standards committees and safety code writers are working to develop best practices and...

How to Prevent Struck-By and Backover Incidents

Struck-by, struck-against and back-over incidents are far too common: 421 Hudson St., Manhattan, NYC: Construction worker killed by scaffolding plank. Woods Hole Golf Club, Falmouth, MA: Construction worker injured in back-over accident. Interstate 440-East, Raleigh, NC: DOT workers seriously...

Fall Protection

Electrical Hazard Protection

How to reduce dangers while providing preventive maintenance data BY FINLEY LEDBETTER, Group CBS, Inc. While most discussions about avoiding electrical hazards focus on personal protective equipment (PPE), utility workers have a number of ways to protect themselves and their gear, including...

Choosing Your Rubber Safety Gloves

Latex versus Natural Rubber – What is the difference? All Raw rubber comes from the rubber tree. It is then processed to become a latex for water-based dipping or dried down to a slab for use in extrusion or solvent dipping operations. Hydrophilic additives in Latex For latex to be usable...

Grounding & Protection

Grounding System Testing: Simplified Fall-Of-Potential And Step-And-Touch Voltage Testing

Verifying the functionality and integrity of a grounding system is critical to maintaining a safe workspace. Unfortunately, the tests used to achieve this goal, as well as the standards used to assess them, have required a specialized skillset, often leaving these tests done improperly or not at...

Electrical Lineman Safety Equipment - Tools of the Trade

When working in close proximity to exposed energized equipment or working on live electrical circuits, it’s necessary to protect not only the equipment being worked on but also the worker. Rubber insulating gloves and insulated hand tools are vital components of a successful PPE system and...

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Electric Utility System Standards

How Ontario regulation can improve electrical safety

BY BILL KHASHFE, London Hydro

According to an Ontario Electrical Safety Report, 35 percent of the province’s electrical-related fatalities in the past 10 years were attributed to power-line contact. Equipment specifications and electric utility construction plans within Ontario’s power industry, only a few decades ago, lacked regulation. Each utility developed its own policies.

Currently, the global economy has created a marketplace in which equipment is manufactured to...

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A Primer on the Codes and Standards Governing Battery Safety and Compliance

How to Prevent Struck-By and Backover Incidents

Fall Protection

Electrical Hazard Protection

Choosing Your Rubber Safety Gloves

Grounding & Protection

Grounding System Testing: Simplified Fall-Of-Potential And Step-And-Touch Voltage Testing

Electrical Lineman Safety Equipment - Tools of the Trade

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Electric Utility System Standards

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The Guide to IEEE Utility Safety Standards

Breaking Down OSHA's Revised Fall Protection Standards for Utility Workers

5 Ways to Improve Bucket-to-Ground Communication

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Trailer Mounted Single Reel V-Groove Carrier/Tensioner

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Electricity Today T&D Magazine - Linemen Safety Winter 2020 Special Edition

Electricity Today T&D Magazine - Linemen Safety September&October 2022 Special Edition

Cybersecurity in Substation and Grid Communications

Symantec Proves Russian “Dragonfly” cyber unit responsible for US critical infrastructure hacking

The Grid of Things

The Copper Theft Pandemic

An Overview of Substation Maintenance: Its Evolution and Key Testing Practices

SCADA for Substations

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