Go With the Flow
This material allows electrical current to move through it easily.
What is a conductor?
This must never be sacrificed for speed.
What is safety?
Employees should do this to their computer before leaving their workstation unattended.
What is lock the screen?
These three letters describe equipment worn to protect employees from workplace hazards.
What is PPE?
McKenzie Electric Cooperative is owned by this group.
Who are the members?
This device changes electricity from one voltage level to another.
What is a transformer?
This safety discussion must be repeated when significant new hazards arise or additional employees join the work.
What is a job briefing?
A fraudulent email designed to trick someone into revealing information or clicking a harmful link is called this.
What is phishing?
This approved head protection must be worn when falling objects or electrical contact could cause an injury.
What is a hard hat?
This online service allows MEC members to view usage, manage their accounts, and make payments.
What is SmartHub?
This occurs when electricity from a generator or another source flows back onto utility lines or equipment that may appear de-energized.
What is backfeed?
Someone has contacted electricity. What should you do before attempting to touch or rescue them, when possible?
What is de-energize the power source?
While using a keyboard, employees should keep these joints in neutral alignment rather than flexed or extended.
What are wrists?
Employees working from an aerial lift must use one of these two fall-protection systems.
What is a fall-restraint system or personal fall-arrest system?
These represent a member's share of the cooperative's margins and may be retired to members over time.
What are Capital Credits?
Electricity travels from generating facilities over transmission lines to this facility, where its voltage is lowered before it enters the distribution system.
What is a substation?
Work will be performed on an underground cable believed to be de-energized. Where should it be grounded?
What is as close to the work as possible?
Before replying to an unexpected email, carefully check this because the display name may not reveal who actually sent it.
What is the sender's email address?
Employees opening or closing switches on an energized circuit must use rubber gloves and this type of tool.
What is an approved live-line switching tool?
McKenzie Electric Cooperative was founded in this year.
What is 1945?
Electrical circuits operating above this voltage are considered primary voltage.
What is 600 volts?
Before underground equipment is considered safe to work on, what three protective steps must be completed?
What are establish a visible open break, test for voltage, and ground the equipment?
This security measure requires another form of verification in addition to a password.
What is multifactor authentication?
Class 2 rubber gloves have a maximum use voltage of this amount.
What is 17,000 volts?
This cooperative principle reflects MEC’s support of scholarships, community programs, and local organizations.
What is Concern for Community?