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Insulate & Isolate Continuing Education Second Quarter 2016

Enhance your safety knowledge with this refresher module on insulating and isolating yourself from electrical hazards in the workplace. Learn key safety fundamentals, methods to protect yourself, and facts about current flow hazards.

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Insulate & Isolate Continuing Education Second Quarter 2016

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  1. Insulate & IsolateContinuing EducationSecond Quarter 2016

  2. The First Rule To Live By: Never Second Guess Electrical Hazards! If there is any doubt, STOP! Consult a Supervisor, Journeyman and/or a Safety Professional

  3. Objectives • Upon completion of this refresher module you should be able to: • Describe the hazards of current flow through the body • Describe the ET&D Partnership Insolate and Isolate Best Practice  • Describe ways to Insulate and/or Isolate yourself from electrical hazards

  4. Key Safety Fundamental • To avoid hazardous differences in electrical potential: • Insulate yourself from the hazard • Isolate yourself from the hazard

  5. Facts Each year workers are killed or seriously injured due to current flow through their body

  6. Insulate Defined • The IEEE defines Insulated as: • Separated from other conducting surfaces by a dielectric substance or air space permanently offering a high resistance to the passage of current

  7. Insulate Defined • OSHA defines Insulated as: • Material relied upon to insulate the conductor from other conductors or conducting parts or from ground

  8. ET&D Best Practice • Rubber gloves can provide insulation from energized parts • When using the Rubber Glove method: • The worker always wears insulated rubber gloves and sleeves when working on energized conductors or equipment

  9. Insulate Defined • The “back-up” systems to a lineman’s insulated rubber gloves are: • An insulated fiberglass boom • An insulated platform • Insulated covering material

  10. Methods to “Insulate” • Insulating equipment insulates the worker from the energized part • Rubber Gloves & Sleeves • Line cover • Insulating Booms • Live-line Tools

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