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Related Safety and Health Topics Pages
Training
Other Resources
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Small Business. OSHA.
- Job Hazard Analysis. OSHA Publication 3071, (2002). Also available as a 497 KB
PDF, 50 pages. Explains what a job hazard analysis is and offers
guidelines to help employers conduct their own step-by-step analysis.
- Worker
Deaths by Electrocution: A Summary of NIOSH Surveillance and Investigative
Findings. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
(1998, May), 137 KB
PDF,
51 pages. Documents a significant history of electrocution injuries and
fatalities from distribution lines to non-electric industry workers; most
notably in the telephone and cable industries.
- Worker
Deaths by Electrocution: A Summary of NIOSH Surveillance and Investigative
Findings. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Publication No. 98-131, (1998, May). Also available as a 137 KB
PDF, 51 pages. Reports that electrocutions were the fifth leading cause of death
based on data from the NIOSH National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF)
surveillance system, from 1980 through 1989. The 6,359 deaths caused by electrocutions accounted
for 7 percent of all fatalities.
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Electrocution Fatality Investigation Reports. National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Traumatic Occupational Injuries
Safety and Health Topic. Provides links to fatality
investigation reports of incidents in which electrical incidents resulted in
the deaths of workers. The first table contains a list of cases investigated
by NIOSH; the second table contains a list of cases investigated by state
investigators in state FACE programs.
- Glossary
of Electricity Terms. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
- Edison
Electric Institute (EEI). Represents United States shareholder-owned electric companies,
international affiliates, and industry associates worldwide. US members generate almost 60 percent of the electricity produced by US
electric generators.
- Electricity 101. (2006), 2 MB
PDF, 54 pages.
Explains how electricity is produced, transmitted, and distributed; which fuels are
used to generate electricity; how electric utilities are regulated; and how
the electric utility industry has evolved over the past 100 years.
- American Public Power Association (APPA).
Serves the nation's more than 2,000 community-owned electric utilities that serve
more than 43 million Americans.
- Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI).
Has major locations in Palo Alto, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina, and was established
in 1973 as an independent, nonprofit center for public interest energy and environmental
research. EPRI's members represent over 90 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.
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