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Electrical Safety Compliance Checklist
There was an error in my 10-point electrical safety compliance checklist of last week:
The Location: Item 7
The Error: The item, “Are electrical tools and equipment in wet or damp locations protected?” cited the wrong part of the OSHA standard.
The Correction: The proper citation, as one of our members pointed out, is 1910.304(f)(5).
The Apology: I apologize [...]
The Contributions of Thomas Edison
As every school child in America knows, Thomas Edison was one of the world’s great inventors. And as Jersey kids like me know, he was from New Jersey—Menlo Park, NJ. What’s less well known about Edison is that he was one of the earliest pioneers of electrical safety.
In 1880, Edison submitted a paper to the [...]
