Electrical and Electronics safety tips and best practices
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Oct 11, 2024
Oct 11, 2024
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Hi fellow CEans. I thought I would start a new topic listing Electrical and Electronics safety tips and best practices for all of us CEans to help add to. The point is to keep Safety First and keep it on our minds every day. We are all worth more Alive. 😀 At my company we start all our shopfloor meetings with a saftey tip from anyone of our coworkers or supervisors. In my opinion I think it helps keep safety in the forefront of everyones mind and to shed light on safety issues others may not have thought of before.
I will start off the list myself and I will do my best to update the list in the first post of this topic for easey reading.
I would like to also share a 3 pillar ideology that my company rolled out this year as a base for our safety awareness program. They consist of these 3 subjects:
I. A culture of zero tolerance-- No injuries are exceptable. Everyone deserves the right to go home in the same condition they arrived in.
II. Safety is everyones resposibility-- Do not wait for someone else to bring a safety issue to someones attention. Do not wait to make a comment to someone that they may be doing something unsafe and suggest a safer method.
III. Every walk is a safety walk-- When your at your place of work or in a class keep your eyes open for possable safety issues and do something to fix it or make it known.
Feel free to bring these ideas to your place of work or into your classroom. 😀
OK lets get this list started!
1. When working with electricity or testing equipment always where cotton (natural fiber) clothing including sox and underware to protect yourself from arc flash burns wich would melt synthetic clothes to your skin. If you are not whereing cotton clothing be sure to where a full length cotton lab coat.
2. Always where safety glasses.
3. Make sure to remove tools and garbage from your work area when energizeing a piece of equipment.
4. Use the correct tool for the job.
5. When energizeing a piece of equipment rope of the area to help alert others that work or testing is going on and to make it less likely someone will get an accidental shock.
6. Before testing call out loudely that you are "testing" to inform others in the erea that you are energizeing something.
7. When useing variable voltage test equipment make sure to check that it is switched off first and the voltage is turned down to the lowest setting. Make sure to do the same thing when you are finished.
8. Check your test equipment cords and leads for any cuts or cracks in the insulation or loose connections.
9. Ensure that your tools are in good working order.
10. Stay focused when you are working with live electricity it is easy to forget what you are doing and accidentaly touch something that you should not.
11. Do not where metal jewelry like rings and necklaces when working with electricity.
12. When working with electrical test equipment make sure you know the correct voltage that you should be useing and also weather it is AC or DC voltage to prevent damage to to the equipement being tested.
13. Wear rubber footwear.
14. Better practice- Always do your current & voltage supply setting before connecting them in the circuit as internal offsets in the ckt. may give you erroneous value of reading on the power supply.
15. Have fire extinguisher everywhere in school , colleges and company..and learn how to use it.
16. Learn the fire brigade number in case of emergency.
17. Use fuse and ckt breakers in your electrical ckt with an indicator.
18. Make people aware about the electric fire and how to control it.
19. Person should know how to distinguish between earth and neutral.
20. Put everything to its place after using dont leave the tools , apparatus to the shopfloor.
21. Make sure your electrical appliances are earthed.If there is no provision,connect a low resistance wire from body of appliance to the earth socket.
OK thats enough for me for now. Lets hear some ideas from our fellow CEans! 😀
SAFETY IS EVERYONES RESPONSIBILTY.
I will start off the list myself and I will do my best to update the list in the first post of this topic for easey reading.
I would like to also share a 3 pillar ideology that my company rolled out this year as a base for our safety awareness program. They consist of these 3 subjects:
I. A culture of zero tolerance-- No injuries are exceptable. Everyone deserves the right to go home in the same condition they arrived in.
II. Safety is everyones resposibility-- Do not wait for someone else to bring a safety issue to someones attention. Do not wait to make a comment to someone that they may be doing something unsafe and suggest a safer method.
III. Every walk is a safety walk-- When your at your place of work or in a class keep your eyes open for possable safety issues and do something to fix it or make it known.
Feel free to bring these ideas to your place of work or into your classroom. 😀
OK lets get this list started!
1. When working with electricity or testing equipment always where cotton (natural fiber) clothing including sox and underware to protect yourself from arc flash burns wich would melt synthetic clothes to your skin. If you are not whereing cotton clothing be sure to where a full length cotton lab coat.
2. Always where safety glasses.
3. Make sure to remove tools and garbage from your work area when energizeing a piece of equipment.
4. Use the correct tool for the job.
5. When energizeing a piece of equipment rope of the area to help alert others that work or testing is going on and to make it less likely someone will get an accidental shock.
6. Before testing call out loudely that you are "testing" to inform others in the erea that you are energizeing something.
7. When useing variable voltage test equipment make sure to check that it is switched off first and the voltage is turned down to the lowest setting. Make sure to do the same thing when you are finished.
8. Check your test equipment cords and leads for any cuts or cracks in the insulation or loose connections.
9. Ensure that your tools are in good working order.
10. Stay focused when you are working with live electricity it is easy to forget what you are doing and accidentaly touch something that you should not.
11. Do not where metal jewelry like rings and necklaces when working with electricity.
12. When working with electrical test equipment make sure you know the correct voltage that you should be useing and also weather it is AC or DC voltage to prevent damage to to the equipement being tested.
13. Wear rubber footwear.
14. Better practice- Always do your current & voltage supply setting before connecting them in the circuit as internal offsets in the ckt. may give you erroneous value of reading on the power supply.
15. Have fire extinguisher everywhere in school , colleges and company..and learn how to use it.
16. Learn the fire brigade number in case of emergency.
17. Use fuse and ckt breakers in your electrical ckt with an indicator.
18. Make people aware about the electric fire and how to control it.
19. Person should know how to distinguish between earth and neutral.
20. Put everything to its place after using dont leave the tools , apparatus to the shopfloor.
21. Make sure your electrical appliances are earthed.If there is no provision,connect a low resistance wire from body of appliance to the earth socket.
OK thats enough for me for now. Lets hear some ideas from our fellow CEans! 😀
SAFETY IS EVERYONES RESPONSIBILTY.
