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Electrical Safety and Maintenance

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Drinking Water and Wastewater

American Water Works Association - PA Section

Melanie Greene

melanie@paawwa.org

717-774-8870 Ext.

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Why is there a continuous need for electrical safety? Who is it made to protect? What are the industry requirements? What are the general requirements? What are the “invisible risks” in: performing general walkthroughs within electrical rooms, the opening and/or disassembly of energized equipment, the manual racking or switching of energized equipment, the unrestricted access to energized electrical equipment, the general lack of regard of energized electrical equipment ratings and/or capacity (incident energy), the general unknown physical and electrical conditions of the electrical equipment? What is Arc Flash? Why is it so important? Who is it made to protect? How can you protect and limit the effects of an Arc Flash? How can you guard against other equipment failures and limit its liabilities? What are some other methods that will help improve general plant electrical safety and electrical maintenance?

Basic thru Intermediate

Electrical Safety Requirements: A discussion on OSHA 1910 & NFPA electrical safety requirements, as applied to the Owner, the Employee & to the Industry. Need for industrial safety practices, procedures, training, and to understand the ready implications to potential liability, electrocution, personal injury and/or death. Estimated time: 20min *Flash: The latest concerns regarding the effects of electrical arc flash, including the addition of new 2005 requirements within NFPA 70 (NEC) addressing IEEE 1584 & NFPA 70E. Need for personnel protective clothing when working on energized circuits, identification of flash protection boundaries, safe approach distances, incident energies, hazard risks, and personnel protection equipment (PPE) requirements. The intentional means towards the reduction of arc flash hazards, including electrical systems design improvements, additional protective relaying, improved electrical maintenance practices, limited personnel access,

Plant Operators, Plant supervision, and/or Plant maintenance people (Electrical and other)

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