The material in today’s Advisor is adapted from a course in TrainingToday’s Workplace Safety Library called “Electrical Safety—Unqualified Worker.”
Regulatory Overview
29 CFR 1910.302 to 1910.308 (design safety rules), and 29 CFR 1910.331 to 1910.335 (safe work practice rules)
Electrical safety deals with the reliability and effective maintenance of electrical systems that can be achieved in part by careful planning and proper design and with safe work practices for persons exposed or potentially exposed to electrical hazards.
Design Safety Requirements for Electrical Equipment
The following list identifies the design safety rules for electrical equipment, in the order that they are presented in the regulations:
- Examination, installation, and use of equipment
- Splices
- Arcing parts
- Marking
- Identification of disconnecting means
- Guarding of live parts
- Protection of conductors and equipment
- Location in or on premises
- Arcing or suddenly moving parts
- 2-wire DC systems to be grounded
- AC systems to be grounded
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- AC systems—50 to 1000 volts—not required to be grounded
- Grounding connections
- Grounding path
- Fixed equipment required to be grounded
- Grounding of equipment connected by cord and plug
- Grounding of nonelectrical equipment
- Methods of grounding fixed equipment
- Flexible cords and cables, uses
- Flexible cords and cables, prohibited
- Flexible cords and cables, splices
- Pull at joints and terminal of flexible cords and cables
- Hazardous (classified) locations
Workers and Activities Covered by the Safe Work Practice Rules
The electrical safe work practice rules cover work practices for both qualified persons and unqualified persons working on, near, or with:
- Premise wiring (i.e., installations of electric conductors and equipment within or on buildings or other structures and on other premises such as yards, parking and other lots, and industrial substations)
- Wiring for connection to supply
- Installations of other outside conductors on the premises
- Installations of optical fiber cable where such installations are made along with electric conductors
The safe work practice rules do NOT apply to work performed by qualified persons on or directly associated with:
- Generation, transmission, and distribution of electric energy (including communication and metering)
- Communications installations (see 29 CFR 1910.268 for such installations)
- Vehicle installations
- Railway installations
Other electrical safety rules
Other OSHA general industry rules related to electrical safety include:
- Electrical protective devices (29 CFR 1910.137)
- Telecommunications (29 CFR 1910.268)
- Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution (29 CFR 1910.269)
Consensus Safety Standards Used Voluntarily by Many Companies
- NFPA 70E—Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, latest edition.
- NFPA 70E is a national consensus standard that provides detailed requirements for electrical safety in the workplace.
- CDC/NIOSH—Electrical Safety, Safety and Health for Electrical Trades Student Manual.
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