UP-TO-DATE, ON-THE-JOB ELECTRICAL SAFETY ESSENTIALS
Covering every major electrical standard, including NEC, NESC, NFPA, 70E, IEEE 1584, and OSHA, Electrical Safety Handbook, Fourth Edition is a practical, illustrated source of life-saving information designed for specific work environments. This must-have guide provides the most current safety strategies for use in industrial, commercial, and home-office electrical systems in an easy-to-use format. Written by experts in electrical operations, maintenance, engineering, construction, and safety, this fully revised edition delivers complete details on:
- Hazards of electricity
- Basic physics of electrical hazards
- Electrical safety equipment
- Safety procedures and methods
- Grounding and bonding of electrical systems and equipment
- Electrical maintenance and its relationship to safety
- Regulatory and legal safety requirements and standards
- Accident prevention, accident investigation, rescue, and first aid
- Low-voltage safety
- Medium- and high-voltage safety
- Human factors in electrical safety
- Safety management and organizational structure
- Safety training methods and systems
From the Back Cover
Almost all of the National Electrical Code® is concerned with safety, but for a convenient source of life-saving information, you can’t do better than this new Electrical Equipment Safety Handbook. Written by renowned experts in the safety and medical fields John Cadick, and published by the world leader in electrical guides, Electrical Equipment Safety Handbook is the reference professionals trust for clear, complete, and up-to-date safety strategies in industrial and commercial electrical systems. This newly revised and expanded edition of the Handbook supplies comprehensive: *Best-practice methods for accident prevention and electrical hazard avoidance *Current safety regulations, including new standards from OSHA *Coverage of safety equipment *Information on low-, medium-, and high-voltage safety systems *Step-by-step guidelines on safety audits *Training program how-to’s, from setup to management *Rescue and first aid procedures *And more than 200 pages of new safety-enhancing features The safety Bible for those who work on or near electrical circuits of any voltage --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
John Cadick, P.E., is a registered professional engineer and the founder and president of the Cadick Corporation. He has specialized for more than three decades in electrical engineering, training, and management. Mr. Cadick is the author of Cables and Wiring (Delmar Cengage Learning).
Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, M.D., M.P.A., is a board-certified physician in general preventive medicine and public health. She is also a consultant to both the NJATC (National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee of National Electrical Contractors Association and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Standards Committees.
Dennis K. Neitzel, C.P.E., is a certified plant engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the electrical field. He has served as a principal committee member for NFPA 70E standards since 1992 and is currently working on the revision of OSHA regulations.
Al Winfield, of the Cadick Corporation, has more than three decades of electrical power experience, having conducted more than 4,500 Electrical Safe Work Practices Seminars.
