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CPOPE
10-25-2007, 04:51 AM
Carey Bucholtz would appreciate it if you would complete the following survey. Any questions and all responses should be sent to Carey at carey.bucholtz@HydroOne.com.

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Many of our workers (in particular Protection and Control technicians) work alone near and with sources of voltage and current. At Hydro One we are perusing technology that can be used by workers when they are required to work alone in Transformer and Distribution Stations.

What devices do you have in place that a worker could use to alert emergency services should an electrical contact/or sudden health problem occur?

If not a device do you have specific procedures for workers to follow when working alone?

If you could share this information with our company it would be greatly appreciated.

Please send any questions or response to Carey Bucholtz at carey.bucholtz@HydroOne.com.

Carey Bucholtz
Hydro One
Senior HS&E Advisor
Grid Operations
Cell 1-613-921-7167
J-fax 1-416-981-3483

mack10
10-26-2007, 12:53 PM
CPOPE, I will pass these questions on to another group and have them to reply to Carey.

wormy
11-08-2007, 06:45 AM
We have a system for employees working alone. This does not include working alone on electric. We require 2 qualified individuals for that.
If you are going to be working alone in plant we have radios. They start beeping every 15 minutes. You key the mike to acknowledge. If you do not press talk button it will try to call you on phone, if you don't answer phone it calls security. Security tries to call you, if no answer they call 911 and plant employees. Cost us about 3000$ for a couple of radios and autodialer

HIVOLTS
11-18-2007, 11:13 AM
We have worked alone in subtations for as long as I can remember, (30 years). and have never had an incident. We switch equipment in and out, perform various maintenance task on everything, transformers, breakers, regulators, battery banks and controls. Sub Techs are probably the best trained crews in the company and they know they can get help when ever they ask for it. Our radios are equiped with emergency buttons that when pressed autmatically connect the worker with the control room operator. Our procedures keep managment and operators notified of who is working where doing what. Safety is not in numbers, it's in training.