One Company's Best Practices to Consider When Creating and Streamlining a Company Electrical Safety Standard

Abstract

The Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA)®, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)® 70E, European Standard EN 50110, and many other established governmental regulations require or encourage employers to establish, document, and implement electrical safety-related work practices, instructions, and procedures. These governmental regulations also require or encourage employers to provide training to the workers regarding these electrical safety-related work practices, instructions, and procedures. When evaluating a company's electrical safety-related work standard: • Does it take a person with an electrical engineering degree or electrical technical background to understand it? Are there several interpretations within a company on the intent of the requirements? Do the requirements easily translate technically to other native languages? This paper reveals the best practices a large global company used to create and later streamline its electrical safety-related work standard. These concepts helped create an updated and streamlined global electrical safety-related work standard that all workers can easily understand. These concepts are readily leverageable for other companies in the process of creating or streamlining their electrical safety-related work practices, instructions, and procedures.