OBO - Electric Power and Lighting Circuits

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Electrical Safety: Work Practices

• Instructions: This checklist is intended to help you identify potential hazards in your workplace. The questions are based on applicable Federal OSHA standards. Keep in mind that additional state and local regulations may apply, depending upon your location. Please check one answer for each question. If you select “no,” you should investigate further to determine what corrective action may be needed to address the hazard. You can review the specific OSHA Standards outlined below at www.osha.gov/law-regs.html. Choose “General Industry” or “Construction.”

• 1. Are load-rated switches, circuit breakers, or other devices designed to be a disconnecting means used for opening, reversing, or closing of circuits under load conditions? OSHA 1910.334(b)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 2. Is repetitive manual reclosing of circuit breakers or reenergizing circuits through replaced fuses prohibited? <br>OSHA 1910.334(b)(2)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 3. After a circuit is deenergized by a circuit protective device, is manually reenergizing the circuit prohibited until it is determined that the equipment and circuit can be safely energized? OSHA 1910.334(b)(2)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 4. Is modifying overcurrent protection of circuits and conductors prohibited? OSHA 1910.334(b)(3)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Personnel Protection for Electrical Work

• 5. Are employees who work in areas where electrical hazards exist provided with and required to use protective equipment that is appropriate for the body parts to be protected and the work to be performed? OSHA 1910.335(a)(1)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 6. Is the protective equipment maintained in good working condition and periodically inspected or tested? OSHA 1910.335(a)(1)(ii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Personnel Protection for Electrical Work

• 7. Are employees required to wear nonconductive head protection if head injury might occur from electric shock or burns when exposed energized parts are contacted? OSHA 1910.335(a)(1)(iv)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 8. Are employees required to wear protective equipment for the eyes and face if injury might occur when electrical explosion causes electric arcs or flashes or flying objects? OSHA 1910.335(a)(1)(v)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 9. Are employees required to use insulated tools or handling equipment if the tool or equipment might contact exposed energized conductors or circuit parts? OSHA 1910.335(a)(2)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 10. When normally enclosed live parts are exposed for maintenance and repair, are they guarded to protect unqualified persons from contact? OSHA 1910.335(a)(2)(ii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 11. Are protective shields, protective barriers, or insulating material used to protect employees from shock, burns, or other injuries while they work near exposed energized parts or where dangerous electric heating or arcing might occur? OSHA 1910.335(a)(2)(ii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 12. Are safety signs, safety symbols, or tags used to warn employees about hazards (such as failure of electrical equipment) that could cause electric shock, burns, or other injury? OSHA 1910.335(b)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Portable Electrical Equipment

• 13. Is portable equipment handled in a manner that will not cause damage? OSHA 1910.334(a)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 14. Is the use of flexible cords connected to equipment for raising or lowering that equipment prohibited? <br>OSHA 1910.334(a)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 15. Is it prohibited to fasten flexible cords with staples or hang them in a manner that could damage the outer jacket or insulation? OSHA 1910.334(a)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 16. Are portable cord and plug-connected equipment and flexible cord sets (extension cords) visually inspected before use every day? OSHA 1910.334(a)(2)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 17. If a defect might expose employees to injury, is the defective or damaged item removed from service and are employees prohibited from using it until repairs and tests have been made? OSHA 1910.334(a)(2)(ii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 18. Do flexible cords used with grounding-type equipment contain an equipment grounding conductor? <br>OSHA 1910.334(a)(3)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 19. Is it prohibited to connect or alter attachment plugs or receptacles in any way that would prevent proper continuity of the equipment grounding conductor at the point where the plugs are attached to the receptacles? OSHA 1910.334(a)(3)(ii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 20. Are adapters that interrupt the continuity of the equipment grounding connection prohibited? <br>OAHA 1910.334(a)(3)(iii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 21. Are locking type connectors properly secured after connection? OSHA 1910.334(a)(5)(iii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 22. Are only approved portable electric equipment and flexible cords used in highly conductive work locations (such as those wet with water or other conductive liquids), or in job locations where employees are likely to contact water or conductive liquids? OSHA 1910.334(a)(4)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 23. Is it prohibited for employees hands to be wet when plugging and unplugging flexible (extension) cords and cord and plug equipment? OSHA 1910.334(a)(5)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Test Instruments and Equipment

• 24. Are only qualified persons permitted to perform testing work on electric circuits or equipment? <br>OSHA 1910.334(c)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 25. Have all test instruments, equipment, and all associated test leads, cables, power cords, probes, and connectors been visually inspected for external defects and damage before the equipment is used? <br>OSHA 1910.334(c)(2)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 26. If a defect may expose an employee to injury, is the defective or damaged item removed so that no employee can use it until the necessary repairs and tests have rendered the equipment safe? OSHA 1910.334(c)(2)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 27. Are test instruments, equipment, and their accessories rated for the circuits and equipment to which they will be connected? OSHA 1910.334(c)(3)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 28. When flammable materials are present only occasionally, is electrical equipment capable of igniting them prohibited? OSHA 1910.334(d)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Training Requirements

• 29. Are employees who are at risk of electric shock trained in and familiar with the safety-related work practices that pertain to their respective job assignments? OSHA 1910.332(b)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 30. Are qualified employees (those who are permitted to work on or near exposed energized parts) given the proper training? OSHA 1910.332(b)(3)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 31. Do qualified employees have the skills and techniques necessary to distinguish exposed live parts from other parts of electric equipment? OSHA 1910.332(b)(3)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 32. Do qualified employees have the skills and techniques necessary to determine the nominal voltage of exposed live parts? OSHA 1910.332(b)(3)(ii)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 34. Working on or Near Exposed Deenergized Parts. OSHA

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 33. Is the degree of training provided determined by the risk to the person? OSHA 1910.332(c)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Working on or Near Exposed Deenergized Parts

• 34. Are all live parts deenergized before employees work on them? OSHA 1910.333(a)(1)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 35. If an employee has contact with parts of fixed electrical equipment or circuits that have been deenergized, have the circuits energizing the parts been locked or tagged? OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 36. Are safe procedures determined before circuits or equipment are deenergized? OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(ii)(A)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 37. Are the circuits and equipment to be worked on disconnected from all energy sources? <br>OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(ii)(B)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 38. Is a lock and tag placed on each disconnecting means used to deenergize circuits and equipment? <br>OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(iii)(A)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 39. Is a written copy of electrical safety procedures (including lockout and tagging) available for inspection? <br>OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 40. Is the lock attached so no one can operate the disconnecting means? OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(iii)(A)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 41. Does each tag have a statement prohibiting unauthorized operation of the disconnecting means and removal of the tag? OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(iii)(B)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 42. When a tag is used without a lock, is at least one additional safety measure used that provides a level of safety equivalent to that obtained from a lock? OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(iii)(D)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Working on or Near Exposed Energized Parts

• 43. Are only qualified persons permitted to work on electric circuit parts or equipment that have not been deenergized? OSHA 1910.333(c)(2)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 44. Are employees restricted from entering spaces containing exposed energized parts, unless illumination is provided that enables them to perform the work safely? OSHA 1910.333(c)(4)(i)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 45. Are employees prevented from handling conductive materials and equipment that are in contact with the person's body that may contact exposed energized conductors or circuit parts? OSHA 1910.333(c)(6)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 46. Do portable ladders have nonconducting siderails when they could contact exposed, energized parts? <br>OSHA 1910.333(c)(7)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 47. Is the use of conductive articles of jewelry, clothing (such as watchbands, bracelets, rings, keychains, necklaces, metalized aprons, cloth with conductive threads, or metal head gear) prohibited for persons working with electricity? OSHA 1910.333(c)(8)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 48. If employees conduct housekeeping duties near live electrical circuits, are adequate safeguards (such as insulating equipment or barriers) used? OSHA 1910.333(c)(9)

  Yes

  No

  N/A