Recent Posts Tagged With 'electrical safety'

• Electric shock data

  Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 02:38 in electrical safety

  The table of electric currents and their various bodily effects was obtained from online (Internet) sources: the safety page of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (website: [*]), and a safety handbook published by Cooper Bussmann, Inc (website: [...

• Safe meter usage

  Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 02:38 in electrical safety

  Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most valuable skill an electronics technician can master, both for the sake of their own personal safety and for proficiency at their trade. It can be daunting at first to use a meter, ...

• Safe circuit design

  Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 02:37 in electrical safety

  As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth ground is unpredictable from a safety perspective: there's no way to guarantee how much or how little voltage will exist between any point in the circuit and earth ground. By groun...

• Emergency response

  Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 02:36 in electrical safety

  Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of electrical safety rules in industry, accidents still do occur. The vast majority of the time, these accidents are the result of not following proper safety procedures. But however they ...

• Safe practices

  Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 02:36 in electrical safety

  If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing any work on it. You must secure all sources of harmful energy before a system may be considered safe to work on. In industry, securing a circuit, device, or system in this conditi...