Creating electrical hazard awareness with communication using msds and labeling

There is credible data to support the assertion that power frequency electrical energy exposure is potentially life-threatening. While given little thought in many occupational settings, working on, near, or with electrical energy can transition from harmless to harmful activity across ultra-short time and spatial dimensions. Furthermore, the hazards associated with electricity use are uniquely challenging. Because electrical energy’s presence saturates daily task performance in a silent, odorless, and invisible manner, people are routinely cognitively desensitized to the physical potency of electrical energy’s fundamental electrothermal-chemical nature. To advance personal and public safety, employers can create electrical hazard awareness with communication using material safety data sheet (MSDS) and labeling in familiar formats adapted from training for chemical safety.