Electrician: OSHA electrical safety rules
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Practice sets for this trade
OSHA Construction: Electrical safety
Construction electrical rules, 29 CFR 1926 Subpart K
OSHA General Industry: Electrical safety
General industry electrical rules, 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S
OSHA General Industry: Lockout/tagout
Controlling hazardous energy, 29 CFR 1910.147
OSHA General Industry: Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution, 29 CFR 1910.269
Key rules, in the regulation's words
On a construction site, no one may work close enough to contact an electric power circuit unless they are protected by deenergizing and grounding it or by guarding it effectively.
“No employer shall permit an employee to work in such proximity to any part of an electric power circuit that the employee could contact the electric power circuit in the course of work, unless the employee is protected against electric shock by deenergizing the circuit and grounding it or by guarding it effectively by insulation or other means.”
29 CFR 1926.416(a)(1)
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