SBatts
04-04-2014, 03:16 AM
I don't have the slightest idea why I renewed OSHA approved First Aid, CPR, and AED Instructors certificate. I guess it was the same reason I renewed OHSA 10/30 Instructors training Certificate last year or My CLD Class A with X endorsement last year. A couple years ago I had an idea for my to start a local school to get these kids trying to get into the trade a cheaper way. If they have to learn to drive a truck it could cost. $1,000 to $6,500. I can do it for $1,200 including supplying the truck, CDL-B with air brake and $1,400 for CDL-A, as for First Aid, at the present I don't have the CPR dummy or practice AED unit. I could kick myself, because I could have had both from a government auction. I just wish I still had my America Red Cross Instructors Card, or like the one I had years ago under the defunct Bureau of Mines.
Well enough of this, the reason I logged on is below.
WELL BOYS AND GIRLS, YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE YOUR CHOSEN PROFESSION A LITTLE LESS.
I always believed in safety, except when it is so hum-drum, that it becomes Sleep Walk or Zombie. You know the kind which, doesn't give the person the ablity, to make serious thinking into the Equation.
OSHA announces final rule revising standards for electric power generation, transmission and distribution.
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=25806
Requirements effective July 10, 2014
•The degree of employee training must be determined by risk to the worker for the hazard involved.
•Qualified workers must have training to recognize and control or avoid electrical hazards at the worksite.
•Host and contract employers must share information on safety-related matters and must coordinate work rules and procedures.
•Line-clearance tree trimmers must have training on distinguishing exposed live parts and determining their voltage, as well as in minimum approach distances and how to maintain them.
•Employers must assess worksites to identify workers exposed to flame or electric arc hazards.
•The final rule recognizes a new class of electrical protective equipment, Class 00 rubber insulating gloves, and adopts new requirements for electrical protective equipment made of materials other than rubber.
•Multiple crews working on the same lines or equipment must coordinate their activities.
•Where protective footwear will protect workers from electrical hazards that remain after the employer takes other protective measures, employers must ensure that workers use protective footwear as a supplementary form of protection.
•Affected workers must follow the new standard for electrical protective equipment, which replaces outdated consensus standards with performance-based requirements consistent with current consensus standards. The new standard for construction will apply to all construction work, not only to power transmission and distribution.
Requirements effective April 1, 2015
•Qualified workers must use fall protection when climbing or changing location on poles, towers, or other structures.
•Work-positioning equipment must be rigged so that workers can free fall no more than two feet.
•Employers must provide workers exposed to hazards from electric arcs with protective clothing and other equipment with an arc rating greater than or equal to the estimated heat energy.
•Employers must adhere to the revised minimum approach distances detailed in the appendices to the standard.
•Employers must provide workers exposed to electric arc hazards with protective clothing and equipment with an arc rating greater than or equal to the estimated heat energy to which he or she could be exposed during an electric arc incident.
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9868
Well enough of this, the reason I logged on is below.
WELL BOYS AND GIRLS, YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE YOUR CHOSEN PROFESSION A LITTLE LESS.
I always believed in safety, except when it is so hum-drum, that it becomes Sleep Walk or Zombie. You know the kind which, doesn't give the person the ablity, to make serious thinking into the Equation.
OSHA announces final rule revising standards for electric power generation, transmission and distribution.
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=25806
Requirements effective July 10, 2014
•The degree of employee training must be determined by risk to the worker for the hazard involved.
•Qualified workers must have training to recognize and control or avoid electrical hazards at the worksite.
•Host and contract employers must share information on safety-related matters and must coordinate work rules and procedures.
•Line-clearance tree trimmers must have training on distinguishing exposed live parts and determining their voltage, as well as in minimum approach distances and how to maintain them.
•Employers must assess worksites to identify workers exposed to flame or electric arc hazards.
•The final rule recognizes a new class of electrical protective equipment, Class 00 rubber insulating gloves, and adopts new requirements for electrical protective equipment made of materials other than rubber.
•Multiple crews working on the same lines or equipment must coordinate their activities.
•Where protective footwear will protect workers from electrical hazards that remain after the employer takes other protective measures, employers must ensure that workers use protective footwear as a supplementary form of protection.
•Affected workers must follow the new standard for electrical protective equipment, which replaces outdated consensus standards with performance-based requirements consistent with current consensus standards. The new standard for construction will apply to all construction work, not only to power transmission and distribution.
Requirements effective April 1, 2015
•Qualified workers must use fall protection when climbing or changing location on poles, towers, or other structures.
•Work-positioning equipment must be rigged so that workers can free fall no more than two feet.
•Employers must provide workers exposed to hazards from electric arcs with protective clothing and other equipment with an arc rating greater than or equal to the estimated heat energy.
•Employers must adhere to the revised minimum approach distances detailed in the appendices to the standard.
•Employers must provide workers exposed to electric arc hazards with protective clothing and equipment with an arc rating greater than or equal to the estimated heat energy to which he or she could be exposed during an electric arc incident.
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9868