Author: Great Britain: Department of Health: Estates and Facilities Division
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780113227570
Category: Health facilities
Page: 116
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This document replaces and supersedes all previous versions of Health Technical Memorandum 2020 - Safety code for low voltage systems. On cover & title page: Electrical services
Managing Electrical Safety provides an overview of electric basics, hazards, and established standards that enables you to understand the hazards you are likely to encounter in your workplace. Focusing on typical industrial environments--which utilize voltages much higher than household or office circuits--the author identifies the eight key components of an electrical safety program and examines each using a model safety management process. You'll learn how to identify electrical hazards, how to prescribe necessary electrical Personal Protective Equipment, how to ensure that equipment is de-energized, and how to safely plan for work on or around exposed live parts.
Learn How to Implement Safety Codes and Regulations Effectively A number of electrical fatalities and injuries that occur each year can be overcome by a thorough understanding of electrical concepts. Yet due to the complexity of regulatory requirements, many safety professionals may not be fully equipped to handle the task. Electrical Safety: Systems, Sustainability, and Stewardship addresses the problem by simplifying the knowledge acquisition process, and arming safety professionals with the tools needed to successfully meet safety and efficacy goals. From power generation facility to electrical device, this text combines knowledge of industry standards, regulations, and real-world experience to provide a detailed explanation of electrical power generation, transmittal, and use. Explains the Concepts behind Electric Code The book introduces the basic sustainability and stewardship concepts inherent to reliability centered maintenance (RCM). It explains how these concepts apply to the components of an electrical system (the concepts can be used when auditing for electrical safety, training on electrical safety, and overseeing an upgrade or extension of a building's electrical system). In addition, it addresses general electrical safety, electromagnetic field shields, ohm/resistance study criteria, arc flash hazard analysis, and hazardous energy control. The authors outline OSHA requirements and the reasons for those requirements, and explain the implementation exigencies. This book: Describes power generation, transmittal, and usage Contains regulatory summaries from the OSHA electrical safety standards Presents the various types of electrical studies including arc flash, electromagnetic field, and ohm resistance investigations Discusses earthing grounds and overcurrent devices as overall components of electrical control and safety Offers an up-to-date discussions of arc flash criteria and evaluation needs that are linked to general electrical safety and grounding requirements Considers electromagnetic field physics, measurement, and control alternatives Electrical Safety: Systems, Sustainability, and Stewardship provides a step-by-step dialogue of the OSHA requirements and more importantly the reasons for those requirements. Describing electrical use within industrial settings, and presenting a ground approach to understanding how electrical power is used, this book lays down the ground work for making important decisions.
Based on the 2009 NFPA 70E and current OSHA regulations, this updated edition takes readers step-by-step through the creation of an electrical safety program, discussing program development from conception through finalization for a plan tailored to a company's unique environment.
Meant to be used with The Electrical Safety Program Book, this guide provides step-by-step advice in building your own facility electrical safety program manual, maintaining a safe workplace and demonstrating to management, inspectors, and OSHA compliance officers how you are doing it. This resource provides blank forms to copy and fill in and example forms suggesting possible entries for you to consider when preparing a manual that fits your unique needs. Together with the Program Book, this provides the guidance needed by facility and plant managers, safety engineers, and supervisory plant electricians to develop the program, document it, and train to it.Includes coverage of:AuditingBudgetingFlame-Resistant Personal Protective EquipmentInstallation IssuesJob Briefing and PlanningProcedures and PlansSite AssessmentTask AssessmentTraining
Author: Great Britain: Department of Health: Estates and Facilities Division
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780113227587
Category: Medical
Page: 116
View: 405
This document sets out operational guidance on electrical safety requirements for high voltage systems in healthcare premises. It is intended to assist in meeting the requirements of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 which detail the precautions to be taken against risk of death or personal injury from electricity in work activities. This document replaces and supersedes all previous versions of Health Technical Memorandum 2021 'Safety code for high voltage systems'.
Electric power engineering education traditionally covers safety of the power equipment and systems. Little attention, if any, is given to the safety of people. When they reach professional status, most power engineers are not familiar with electric safety issues such as practices governing site works or grounding techniques of dwellings, hospitals, and factories. Designed for both electrical engineering student and practicing power engineers, Electric Safety: Practice and Standards provides the knowledge and analysis they need to be well versed in electric safety. Features: Includes techniques to assess safety practices at worksites and provides remedies to correct safety problems Addresses the elusive stray voltage problem and provides techniques to mitigate its impact in dwellings as well as in sensitive installations such as hospitals and dairy farms Provides approximate, yet accurate, analyses and techniques that can be used to assess electric safety without the need for extensive computation or elaborate programs Includes several case studies from real events and examples demonstrating how variations in electric safety procedure implementation influence safety levels Based on the authors’ years of experience as an expert witness and electric safety training instructor, the book covers the analysis of electric safety practices as well as the interpretations of various safety codes. Including homework problems and a solutions manual, this book is a comprehensive guide to recognize and eliminate hazards of electric shocks for professionals working on electric power equipment, as well as people such as the general public in commonly used places, farms workers and animals, and hospital patients.
For ease of use, this edition has been divided into the following subject sections: general principles; materials and processes; control, power electronics and drives; environment; power generation; transmission and distribution; power systems; sectors of electricity use. New chapters and major revisions include: industrial instrumentation; digital control systems; programmable controllers; electronic power conversion; environmental control; hazardous area technology; electromagnetic compatibility; alternative energy sources; alternating current generators; electromagnetic transients; power system planning; reactive power plant and FACTS controllers; electricity economics and trading; power quality. *An essential source of techniques, data and principles for all practising electrical engineers *Written by an international team of experts from engineering companies and universities *Includes a major new section on control systems, PLCs and microprocessors
