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Prevent electrical accidents Each year hundreds of people are killed or injured by electrical energy. Many, if not most, of these accidents could be prevented by the use of appropriate electrical safety techniques and equipment. Electrical Safety Handbook, Second Edition is a must-have, accident-avoiding prescription for personnel working on or near electrical circuits at any voltage level. Electricians, electrical system designers, inspectors, and engineers will find crucial protective safety strategies in industrial and commercial systems.
You get detailed guidelines for setting up effective safety programs…medical emergency procedures…and examples and case studies throughout. This new second edition covers the latest OSHA, NEC NESC, NFPA regulations. You’ll also find increased coverage of safety procedures; expanded material on safety audits; and more guidance on establishing in-house training programs.
From the Back Cover
Almost all of the National Electrical Code® is concerned with safety, but for a convenient source of life-saving information, you can’t do better than this new Electrical Equipment Safety Handbook. Written by renowned experts in the safety and medical fields John Cadick, and published by the world leader in electrical guides, Electrical Equipment Safety Handbook is the reference professionals trust for clear, complete, and up-to-date safety strategies in industrial and commercial electrical systems. This newly revised and expanded edition of the Handbook supplies comprehensive: *Best-practice methods for accident prevention and electrical hazard avoidance *Current safety regulations, including new standards from OSHA *Coverage of safety equipment *Information on low-, medium-, and high-voltage safety systems *Step-by-step guidelines on safety audits *Training program how-to’s, from setup to management *Rescue and first aid procedures *And more than 200 pages of new safety-enhancing features The safety Bible for those who work on or near electrical circuits of any voltage
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