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e-Hazard Trainers including Hugh Hoagland, Bill Shinn, Lee Hale, Drake Drobnick, Al Havens, Daleep Mohla and others speak at events all over the world. Here are some events where you can find us:
7th Annual Joint Western Regional Mine Safety and Health Conference
Las Vegas, NV
October 25-26, 2011
Al Havens
ICUEE
Louisville, KY
October 4-6, 2011
Hugh Hoagland
Arc Flash Forum
Sydney, AU
October 20-21, 2011
Hugh Hoagland
IWEA 2011 Plant Operator Seminar
Rockford, IL
October 26, 2011
Lee Hale
National Safety Council
Philadelphia, PA
Oct 30-Nov 4, 2011
Hugh Hoagland & Drake Drobnick
IEEE Electrical Safety Workshop
Daytona Beach, FL
Jan 31-Feb 3, 2012
Hugh Hoagland & Mikhail Golovkov
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Upcoming Classes
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Low Voltage
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NFPA 70E-2012 Low Voltage Qualified Training
Seattle, WA
October 19, 2011
NFPA 70E-2012 Low Voltage Qualified Training
Evansville, IN
November 2, 2011
NFPA 70E-2012 Low Voltage Qualified Training
Allentown, PA
November 8, 2011
NFPA 70E-2012 Low Voltage Qualified Training
Northbrook, IL
November 15, 2011
NFPA 70E-2012 Low Voltage Qualified Training
Atlanta, GA
November 16, 2011
NFPA 70E-2012 Low Voltage Qualified Training
Louisville, KY
December 5, 2011
NFPA 70E-2012 Low Voltage Qualified Training
Decatur, AL
January 24, 2012
High Voltage
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HV Qualified Training
Louisville, KY
December 6, 2011
Train The Trainer
NFPA 70E-2012 LV & HV
Train The Trainer
Dec 5-8,2011
Louisville, KY
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August Survey Results: Energized Work Permit
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When do you require an Energized Work Permit?
In the August Newsletter we asked you when you require an Energized Work Permit. With a total of 46 respondents, the majority answered all energized work except testing/troubleshooting. |
September Survey: Electrical Safety Program
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ICUEE Article | |
Be sure to read Incident Prevention Magazine next month to read Hugh Hoagland's article on the 5 PPE Safety Challenges for 2012.
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OSHA Cranes and Derricks Final Rule | | The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released an historic new standard, addressing the use of cranes and derricks in construction and replacing a decades old standard. The significant number of fatalities associated with the use of cranes and derricks in construction and the considerable technological advances in equipment since the publication of the old rule, issued in 1971, led the Labor Department to undertake this rulemaking.
Several provisions have been modified from the proposed rule. For example: - Employers must comply with local and state operator licensing requirements which meet the minimum criteria specified in � 1926.1427.
- Employers must pay for certification or qualification of their currently uncertified or unqualified operators.
- Written certification tests may be administered in any language understood by the operator candidate.
- When employers with employees qualified for power transmission and distribution are working in accordance with the power transmission and distribution standard (� 1910.269), that employer will be considered in compliance with this final rule's requirements for working around power lines.
- Employers must use a qualified rigger for rigging operations during assembly/disassembly.
- Employers must perform a pre-erection inspection of tower cranes.
For more information regarding these changes, please visit: http://www.osha.gov/as/opa/cranesderricks-factsheet.html |
Pub Date for NFPA 70E 2012 Edition | |
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Fines by OSHA on Electrical Hazards this Month | | Most citations this month include electrical hazards.
Click here to see the citations and our commentary. |
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Continuing Education Credits | |
There are no nation-wide standards for the licensing of engineers or electricians. Each state has its own policies and requirements, and it is imperative that all individuals in these professions be knowledgeable of the guidelines in their respective locations.
Engineers are responsible for managing their own Professional Development Hours (PDH); the vast majority of State Licensing Boards do not pre-approve providers or courses.
Licensing of electricians/contractors is extremely variable.
Examples of various state licensing requirements: **
- require both licensing and continuing education credits *
- AK, DE, FL, ID, KY, LA, MT, NC, NJ, NE, NM, OH, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY
- require no licensing at state level
- require licensing at state level but no continuing education credits
- require training on local laws and administrative rules as part of any continuing education credit
- require training only on NEC code for continuing education credit
- require that their state's schools provide continuing education training or be in partnership w/ approved state associations
- require that instructors who are licensed in their state only provide continuing education training
- require that student be self-directed in pursuing continuing education credit; providers and courses not pre-approved
* E-Hazard has pursued approval - and received same -- as a provider in those states who require licensing and continuing education credit.
Specific class approvals for continuing education credit for electricians:
- 'Low Voltage Qualified NFPA 70E / Electrical Workplace Safety'
- Instructor-led: AK, DE, FL, ID, KY, LA, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, OH, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI, and WY
- Video: AK, LA
- Online: AK, LA
- 'High Voltage Qualified'
- Instructor-led: KY, MT, WA.
** While every effort is made to ensure that the information regarding state licensure is current, e-Hazard makes no guarantee of the accuracy or completeness of the data. It is the responsibility of each individual to investigate their Licensing Board's requirements to ensure compliance.
Check with our office for credit hours awarded or any additional details or requests.
Terri Wettle / Administrative Assistant
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Burn Up The Myth | |
Question: Is training enough to get workers to work safely?
Answer: I think the real question is, "What is Safety Training?"
For some companies it is a class, but if you look at standards like NFPA 70E and ANSI Z10 you get a different picture. Training is part of making a worker "qualified" and this could be a class. However, in the best companies with the best safety records, safety is more than training and training is more than classes.
Is training enough? No. A recent article looked at a study I had read about years ago that was fascinating. In rural areas of Bangladesh, cholera is a huge killer of the population. The poor there do not have purified water and collect it from pools or rivers which contain the contagion. Many of the rural women would filter their water through their sari (dress) but this would not eliminate any of the cholera contagion. Researchers found that if they washed an old sari to plump up the fibers and folded it in four it would strain out 99% of the cholera contagion.
They trained several villages of women to do this simple task and the cholera dropped in those villages with just this one behavior change.
I first read about this right after the study was published in a scientific magazine I subscribe to. I was impressed with the simple safety approach.
I was saddened to read last week in the New York Times that the researchers returned to the same villages and cholera, while it was still less, had returned in full force. Why? None of the women who had been trained used 4 layers of sari to filter the water, and most used none.
It takes MORE than just training. Next month's column, we will take a look at what the "more" is.
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ArcWear™ Arc Testing Dates | |
2011 Oct 11-16 Nov 7-11 Dec 12-16
ASTM F1959, ASTM F2178, ASTM F887 fall protection arc testing and mannequin testing are scheduled at the Kinectrics Lab in Toronto on the dates above.
Ship materials or clothing to: Hugh HoaglandArcWear.com 13113 Eastpoint Park Blvd. Suite E Louisville, KY 40223 PH: 502-333-0510 arctesting@ArcWear.com We must receive one week before the test date for sample preparation or make arrangements to ship to lab. New and non US/Canadian Customers must make payment before test date. Testing is offered on a first come/first served basis with priority for consulting customers. New policies:
- $100 per material for prep/washing and cutting panels ($200 for items arriving less than 7 days before test date to cover preparation overtime)
- $200 for the initial international hard copy report shipping or notarization requests. Each report after is $50.00.
No guarantee is made of when testing will occur; we do all in our power to test within one month of receipt. All ArcWear.com testing is performed at Kinectrics High Current lab in Toronto, Canada. Kinectrics is an ISO 17025 accredited lab by the Standards Council of Canada. |
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