How can you create a culture of continuous improvement in electrical safety?

Electrical safety is clearly outlined in OSHA but more importantly in NFPA 70E, it lays out the most fundamental rule that risk mitigation is of the upmost priority. Work on De-energized systems is crucial unless absolutely necessary.

Policies,procedures are only as good as the example and mindset of those in charge. Your first line of defense is to empower the field foreman with 1) proper equipment 2) their direction every morning at the start the priority is safety before production. If safety is first my experience is production always follows at a great pace. Cutting corners of safety doesn’t lead to faster completion.

Compliance with the procedure shall be monitored regularly, all the incident, near miss associated with the electrical safety shall be analysis to eliminate further occurrence of such incidents. A culture of no blame reporting of near miss incidents shall be implemented and encourage the workers by implementing rewarding system to report any undesirable situation which may become threat to health and safety of the workers or to property. Thus, such action can be useful to improve the culture of continuous improvement in electrical safety.

Always in the construction projects that take into account the number of elements of the work plan as follows: 1 - How is the protection of the human element of accidents and injuries, according to all Activity 2 - How will the training of personnel to the project to work systems safe and use tasks PPE 3 - also how you are protected property and facilities during the implementation of the project against fires and explosions.4 - Finally, how to deal with the events and attitudes in the event of an emergency (accidents - an explosion - fire - flooding) 5- Generally how are safety management and occupational health and the environment.

There are unfortunate incidents we here related to spark inside electrical panels which results burn injury and electrical shock to electricians. Underlying reasons could be use of underrated cables, use of inappropriate connectors, wrong relay settings, lack of earth protection, not maintaining earth pit etc. For human life safety, electrical system is the most critical and there should be a robust qualification test before any tradesman or engineers allowed to work on panels. Damaged insulations due to poor method of cable pulling, lack of lightning system coverage also attribute to high risk to human life. LOTO, Lock out tag out system to be implemented for all maintenance works, working in energised panels.

Permit to work system, Qualified and experienced technicians, safety special PPE, fool proofed advanced protection by system without compromise, mentoring with examples, class room training with visual reels, periodic auditing with 0 tolerance,