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Did you know that employers are required by law to estimate incident heat energy of electric-arc hazards and provide exposed workers the right personal protective equipment (PPE)?
Non-compliance with OSHA’s OSH Act exposes employees to serious safety threats and may result in hefty OSHA fines and even imprisonment for employers.
OSHA enforces workplace safety under the law, but the OSHA electrical safety standards are not prescriptive. While the requirements of NFPA 70E are prescriptive, they are not mandated by law. However, they are considered to be the minimum consensus requirements for safe electrical work procedures, and OSHA may use them as the basis for issuing citations.
If you haven't calculated incident heat energy and provided PPE to exposed workers, you're breaking the law. Don't put your company and your employees at risk.
In 2014, OSHA published the Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution and Electrical Equipment Final Rule that requires employers to do the following to protect workers from flames and electric arc hazards.
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