When OSHA was signed into law half a century ago, the prevailing notion about electrical safety is that it is rules-based. The idea was the company makes the rules, and the employees follow them. All ...

Driving to work last week, while pondering the many reasons companies use permanent electrical safety devices (PESDs) in their electrical safety programs, I nearly slammed into the back of a bus ...

AS the author states in the preface, this treatise was primarily written for the use of intermediate classes in universities and technical colleges, and is based on his lectures to second-year ...

NFPA 70E says, “The electrical safety program shall identify the principles upon which it is based” [110.5(E)]. Someone could read this and then make a list of unhelpful verbiage to satisfy the ...