Video Library: Electrical Safety

Avoiding Electrical Hazards
Electrical Safety, 1989
Electrical Safety, 1991
Electrical Safety, Beware the Bite
Electrical Safety in the Workplace
It Only Takes a Few Seconds, and Your Whole Life Changes
Power Line Hazard Awareness
Preventing Electrical Accidents: Safe Work Practices
The Mark Standifer Story: Lessons Learned from Arc Flash Tragedy -Covers NFPA 70E!
Working With Electricity

• Avoiding Electrical Hazards
  #AV003 (19 min. 1990)
  Occupational
  This video program teaches workers how to work safely with and around electricity. It can be used for new employee orientation or as a general refresher.
  • Keeping your environment safe
  • Personal protection
  • Safe work procedures
  • Working on energized circuits
  • Working near equipment and lines
  • Lockout/tagout
• Electrical Safety
  #EL001 (17 min. 1989)
  Occupational
  Complies with OSHA Electrical Safety-related Work Practices Regulation. Complete coverage of hazards and safeguards for working with electricity. Includes electrical systems, fuses and circuit breakers, grounding, overload and short circuits, double insulation, GFI, and polarized plug.
• Electrical Safety
  #EL005 (15 min. 1991)
  Occupational
  This module familiarizes you with the basic electrical hazards and encourages safe practices around electricity. Electrical accidents (incidents), deaths, and fires are among the most common and costly of safety hazards. You will learn that electrical safety is important both on and off the job and that electrocution is potentially preventable.
• Electrical Safety, Beware the Bite
  #EL002 (20 min. 1996)
  Occupational
  This program covers the OSHA rules for safe electrical work practices, electrical safeguards, housekeeping, lockout, personal protective equipment, safely rescuing a shock victim and first aid.
• Electrical Safety in the Workplace
  #EL003 (17 min. 1995)
  Occupational
  Electricity lights up our homes and powers much of the machinery and equipment that we use. Unfortunately, most employees take electricity for granted and forget that it can also be dangerous. Employees need to know how electricity works and the precautions to take to protect themselves from its hazards. Electrical Safety in the Workplace reminds employees about electrical hazards they may face in their jobs, and provides the valuable information they need to work safely around electricity, such as how electricity works, fuses and circuit breakers, outlets, plugs and extension cords, working with electrical equipment, using ladders around electricity, and electrical emergencies. This program also satisfies the OSHA training requirements under 29 CFR Part 1910.331 for non-qualified employees.
• It Only Takes a Few Seconds, and Your Whole Life Changes
  #IT101 (12 min. 1999)
  Electrical
  Few people have lived to tell what it feels like to be electrocuted. This is the story of how one man's life was irrevocably changed in an instant during an accident on the job. The video contains a re-enactment of an accident and actual photos of injuries, which may be disturbing. It is the intent of Reliant Energy that the impact of this video will prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
• Power Line Hazard Awareness
  #PO008, #PO009 (18 min. 1996)
  Occupational
  This video focuses on how to work safely near power lines on job sites. Topics covered include OSHA standards, barrier protection, warning methods protection technology, material handling, underground notification systems and what to do if a contact occurs. Equipment discussed includes cranes, drill rigs, aerial buckets, etc
• Preventing Electrical Accidents: Safe Work Practices
  #PR090 (23 min. 1992)
  Occupational
  Designed to help employers meet training requirements of the electrical safety related work practices standard (29CFR 1910.331-335). Discusses different ways to approach energized versus de-energized equipment, differences between qualified and non-qualified workers, and safe work practices on or near overhead electric lines.
• The Mark Standifer Story: Lessons Learned from Arc Flash Tragedy -Covers NFPA 70E!
  #AF010 (19 min. 2005)
  Occupational
  Mark Standifer received 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 40 percent of his body and was nearly killed when he was engulfed in an arc blast while performing an electrical task at a wastewater treatment plant. While installing relays on the door of a 13,800-volt switchgear, he made several crucial errors resulting in a tragedy that will affect Mark and his family for the rest of their lives. In this powerful program, viewers will see the mistakes Mark made and learn the lifesaving lessons from the incident. The importance of understanding all hazards of a job task and taking the necessary precautions to protect yourself from them is stressed throughout the video. Topics include always following safe electrical work practices, the dangers of complacency when performing electrical work, hazards of jewelry and flammable clothing and the purpose of an arc hazard analysis. The video also explains the reasons for arc flash regulations and the various clothing and personal protection required for hazard risk categories zero through four.
• Working With Electricity
  #WO004 (16 min. 1988)
  Occupational
  This program details the hazards associated with using electricity on the job and illustrates the importance of knowing standard procedures for handling electrical problems. Common hazards covered include insufficient wire insulation, faulty breakers, dirty casings, overload outlets and work with power tools around water. Fundamental OSHA regulations are reviewed. Audience: ware-houses, manufacturing and construction.