ECC POLICY
This document outlines the expectations, rules, and responsibilities for all ECC employees.
What is the Employee Handbook?
Guy wires must be marked with these if placed across pedestrian walkways or areas with foot or vehicular traffic
What are high-visibility guy markers? (Guy Guards)
In March of 1999, this bench mark in ECC history took place.
What is the Dycom acquisition?
Before climbing a ladder, workers should inspect for instability, missing feet or rungs and this
What is damage?
This legacy telecom platform is being phased out in favor of FTTH.
What is DSL?
This ECC platform allows anonymous reporting of misconduct or ethical concerns.
What is EthicsPoint?
Communication cables on joint-use poles must maintain this minimum vertical separation from secondary power lines.
What is 40 inches?
What is Rural Co-Op's?
Hard hats must be replaced this often, even if no visible damage is present. Sooner if damage is identified
What is every 5 years?
In the past 10 years, this type of splitter has become the standard for GPON & XGS PON networks.
What are 1:32 splitters?
Employees are required to complete this daily before beginning any task.
What is a JTSA?
Communication lines crossing roadways accessible to large trucks must maintain this minimum vertical clearance.
What is 18 feet? (Note: NESC 2023 update increased from 15.5–16 ft depending on conditions)
As of May 2025, ECC has this many offices
What is 65?
The most common soft tissue injury in construction is due to this.
What is improper lifting?
Though not the most common, this industry change has made aerial fiber builds more cost-effective and faster to deploy.
What is ADSS? (all-dielectric self-supporting)
All employees are required to notify these two groups, in order, when an injury occurs on a jobsite if it is not life threatening.
1: Safety (Colby Davis)
2: Direct Supervisor/Manager
To meet NESC grounding requirements, communication strand must be bonded to this at each pole.
What is the vertical ground?
What is 400?
These specific signs can only be used when this activity is taking place on a job site. They are required to be taken down as soon as this activity is completed.
This piece of equipment distributes signal to multiple customers over a passive fiber network, used daily on Frontier FTTH deployments.
What is an OLT (Optical Line Terminal)
Per ECC policy, employees operating equipment must complete this document before use each day.
What is a "Pre-Use" or "Pre-Flight" inspection?
According to the NESC, communication cables installed in a span with limited clearance can be placed above power when this condition exists.
What is NEVER. Communication cables can not be placed above power at the pole or midspan.
Gary Ervin completed his goal to climb all 7 Major summits in 2022. This mountain was the final mountain to complete that challenge.
What is Mt. Denali?
When working in elevated areas, this is the maximum allowable free-fall distance for a properly used personal fall arrest system under OSHA regulations.
What is 6 feet?
Fiber networks send data using this, making it faster than traditional network architectures
What is light?