| | | | | | How you store PPE can affect its ability to protect you. Personal protective equipment (PPE) can be rendered unprotective by sloppy storage hazards. Let’s look at some types of PPE and tips on storing them so the protection is there when you need it. |
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| | Sponsored | | MENNEKES SPEC Grade Series of NEMA 4X Stainless Steel Disconnects now includes a 200A and 400A model. Units feature a sloped roof to facilitate runoff and have a compact mounting footprint for use in several plant areas. Switches are UL 98 Listed with a rugged pistol grip LO/TO compliant handle and are provided standard with early break auxiliary contacts. |
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| | | | Attention to a few specifics can eliminate 98% of the hazards associated with using a drill. Here are 18 tips to protect yourself against painful injury from misuse of a drill or a suddenly snapping bit. |
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| | Sponsored | | The Carhartt® FeatherWeight FR rental workwear line, offered exclusively from Cintas®, features GlenGuard® FR fabric to provide the wearer with added comfort and durability. |
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| | | | The NFPA Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem is a framework that identifies the components that must work together to minimize risk and help prevent loss, injuries, and death from fire, electrical, and other hazards. There are eight key components to the ecosystem. |
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| | Sponsored | | In business, the only certainty is change. Being able to adapt to that change is essential to the long-term success of any commercial, industrial, or municipal operation. On the facility management front, this often comes up when lighting or load schedules need to be adjusted with short notice to accommodate business needs. To help solve this challenge... |
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| | | | In managing any electrical system, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) publishes three key documents (NFPA 70, National Electrical Code; NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace; and NFPA 70B, Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance). As of January 2023, NFPA 70B has evolved from a “recommended practice” into an enforceable... |
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| | | | Ensuring the safety of employees in the workplace is undeniably the foremost responsibility of any company. While the importance of workplace safety is universally acknowledged, a disconcerting question arises: Why do incident rates of electrical injuries — and, in some tragic cases, fatalities — persist without showing a significant decline year over... |
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| | | Check out the latest edition of our “Editor’s Choice: Top Product Picks” gallery. This month highlights the industry's latest product innovations chosen by the editors of EC&M. Click through the following six slides to see the latest and greatest products from various categories, such as circuit breakers, outdoor power enclosures, work gloves, connectors... |
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| | | Why your answers could mean the difference between maintaining an electrically safe work environment and an electrical injury or fatality |
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| | | This year's Top 40 Electrical Design Firms managed to squeeze out revenue growth despite economic uncertainly. Reporting a combined electrical design revenue total of $4.447 billion in 2023 (the full year of data that the 2024 survey results are based on), respondents managed to come in 13% higher as a collective group than the year before. See some... |
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| | | Vote between now and June 23, 2024, for the Product of the Year. |
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| | | In Episode 35 of “EC&M Asks,” a video series featuring subject matter experts (SMEs) answering reader-submitted questions regarding popular electrical topics, Randy Barnett, a journeyman electrician, inspector, author, trainer, and electrical safety expert, answers common questions he receives from electrical professionals regarding electrical safety... |
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| | | Cities in the state of California and Washington topped the “Top 10 Highest-Paying Cities for Electricians for 2023” once again, based on data from “Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2023 Study,” provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state of Washington had the most cities represented, followed by California and Illinois, then Oregon... |
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| | | When it comes to fall protection equipment, it’s common for workers to improperly don the equipment, which can potentially allow them to work while still being exposed to the risk of injury or worse. |
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| | | Fill in the blank. For cord-and-plug- (or attachment fitting-) connected appliances, a(an) _____ plug (or attachment fitting) and receptacle combination shall be permitted to serve as the disconnecting means. |
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| | | Ellen Parson, editor-in-chief of EC&M, sits down with electrical testing expert Ron Widup at the PowerTest 24 Conference, held in late February in Dalla s and sponsored by the InterNational Electrical Testing Association (NETA). This quick chat not only highlights turnout at this year’s event and feedback from attendees, but also outlines key initiatives... |
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| | | Safety experts often focus on educating people against making common mistakes. They identify the mistake and tell you what to do instead. That’s good because those mistakes have a disproportionate effect on workplace safety compared to uncommon mistakes. But this focus has a downside — namely that uncommon mistakes may be just as deadly, injurious,... |
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