Managing electrical safety at work place working with specialist contractors

This paper discusses an incident about an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) specialist who visited an Oil & Gas site for maintenance activities during a plant turnaround event and received an electrical shock. Emphasis to OEM engineers that compliance with site Electrical Safety Rules (ESR) is mandatory for ALL, equipment experts are not an exception! Often OEM specialist engineers are regarded as experts on their own equipment but we must not forget about our controls of chronic unease on safety issues, continual vigilance and individual safety leadership, taking care of each other and intervening when we see something that “looks off” even when there is a specialist contractor in play.