100 Years and Counting – What Have We Learned, What Can We Share

The high voltage transmission / distribution utilities, power generation, commercial, industrial and construction electrical sectors have much to learn and share from each other regarding electrical safety. These sectors have developed innovative best practices within the confines of their own work programs over the years but most often have not pooled that collective knowledge effectively enough between themselves. High functioning leading-edge learning organizations from these electrical sectors realized a long time ago that there are far more similarities than differences between them when it comes to electrical safety and the potential exposures to those toxic energies. This paper will explore and describe in detail some of the opportunities for positive and proactive improvement between these segments of the electrical industry. These opportunities can be used by anyone to significantly advance the electrical safety culture within their organization. Benchmarking effective techniques such as “quality” tailboards or pre-job briefs, execution of risk assessment procedure to obtain an output of residual risk, using clarity as the critical tool for world class communication in field scenarios will be explored and more. The soft skills that need to be used by those doing hard work. If you need to change and upgrade your electrical safety culture this will be an empowering and enlightening journey.