Webinar VOD | NFPA 70E: Importance of Risk Assessment in Electrical Safety Programs

Risk reduction is the foundation of a profound electrical safety program. Electrical safety is all about minimizing risks to acceptable levels that protect both workers and employers from devastating effects of electrical shock and arc-flash hazards. Electrical safety is only achieved when the equipment design, safety controls, policies and procedures all come together in harmony when a task is performed by the worker. No piece of equipment, device, or a safety policy by itself can make a system absolute safe. It is imperative that employers thoroughly understand, identify, analyze, and evaluate the risks their workers’ are exposed to while performing their tasks and implement robust risk control techniques and procedures in place to protect their workforce. Recent changes to NFPA 70E, 2018 standard puts more emphasis in risk assessment area by introducing risk control hierarchy to the standards section and further added human factors, such as human error to the risk assessment. This webinar will focus on the basic principles of risk management, hierarchy of risk controls, hazard based and task based risk assessment methods. Additional topics of discussion will include changes to NFPA 70E on risk assessment, guidance and sample job hazard analysis examples with risk quantification calculations in mechanical and electrical lockout/tagout tasks.
John Kolak is an award-winning author and Certified Safety Professional (CSP).

[@lawtonsegler1923]

Thanks. Very good presentation. You really packed in a lot of great information in a short period of time, but it would be great to go through real world scenarios. I find this to be lacking in most 70E training. At least the training accessible to the people effected the most. I believe lack of affordable training is the biggest reason the average electrician does not follow the standard.

[@gracetechnologies]

Thank you for the feedback. I will share this with the team.