Section "U" Safety Manual
What is an Excavation?
OSHA General Industry
UTV's, Skid Loaders, and Hydro-Vacs
Induction and Protective Grounding
FMCSA Trailer Inspections & Loading
What's Holding You Up?
3-Phase Transformer Connections
Potluck
2024 SAFE Talks
400
This is the number of layers of insulation required when placing an energized primary conductor against a pole or crossarm.
What is two?
400
This is the color of flag and paint that would indicate a buried fiber optic line.
What is orange?
400
This is what is required before performing a task that you have not performed for 20 months.
What is retraining?
400
This is one item of PPE that is required whenever operating a UTV.
What is safety glasses, helmet, or boots (over the ankle).
400
This is what a lineman can use to bleed off electrostatic induction on a line.
What is a single ground?
400
This is what happens when adequate weight of the trailer does not rest on the tongue and the load is not placed properly on the trailer.
What is trailer sway?
400
This is the minimum number of feet for which workers must use fall protection equipment when working at elevated heights.
What is 4 feet?
400
When the polarity of a residential transformer is additive, the H1 and X1 bushings are directionally associated with one another in this manner.
What is diagonal from one another?
400
This is the mechanical advantage that a single movable pulley provides to the user.
What is a mechanical advantage of 2?
400
This is what two contractor workers were doing on the ground when they were fatally injured on a 69kV line and their UTV was also burned up. They were working for a subsidiary of Con Edison.
What is tightening the guy wires? (January 8, 2024)
800
This is the maximum number of workers on a job when a job briefing is not required to be completed.
What is one?
800
This indicates when a cooperative is permitted to work off of a homeowner's OUPS ticket.
What is never?
800
This is how often linemen and other 1910.269 workers are required to demonstrate proficiency in CPR.
What is annually?
800
This is the minimum number of qualified employees required when operating hydro-vac equipment.
What is 2?
800
Besides voltage, this is the other electrical factor that the Compass and Sixth Sense can detect.
What is current? (Magnetic Field).
800
Which of the following best describes how a large cargo load should be positioned on a trailer?
a. Centered and low as possible
b. To the front and as high as possible
c. To the driver's side and low as possible
d. To the rear and low as possible
What is a. Centered and low as possible?
800
This is a specific type of connector that can only be used with steel and aluminum and is prohibited for use with rope and synthetic webbing.
What is a snaphook?
800
This is the number that can you can use to multiply by the kVA rating of a 120/240V transformer to quickly and roughly calculate its ampacity.
What is the number 4?
800
This is one advantage that the jacket of underground medium voltage cable offers.
What is provide mechanical protection to the cable?
OR
What is prevent water to enter the sheath and concentric neutral?
800
This is the total number of people that made contact with 7.2kV following a car-pole accident. They attached the steel cable from the tow truck to the luggage rack of the car when it let loose and made contact.
What is the fire chief, one fireman, the ambulance company EMT, and a public bystander for a total of FOUR? The fire chief was killed and the fireman was revived by an AED.
1200
This is the person required to understand the energized work being done, be able to point out unsafe conditions and work practices, and capable of performing a rescue.
What is the qualified observer?
1200
This is the color of paint to be used on the proposed excavation by the entity requesting an OUPS ticket.
What is white?
1200
This is the class of hard hat that linemen are required to wear for dielectric protection.
What is Class E?
1200
This is the number of emergency-treated injuries associated with UTVs, ATVs and ROVs over a recent 5-year period in the US:
a. 526,900
b. 257,400
c. 12,630
d. 4,890
What is a. 526,900?
1200
For understanding of hazards presented, this is the best way to describe the electric field that surrounds an energized conductor.
What is weak and easily blocked?
1200
This is what is considered as best practice for the rear truck tires when loading a trailer.
What is chocking?
1200
This is how often fall protection equipment is required to be inspected by someone other than the user.
What is annually?
1200
This is what can easily be done to change rotation on a 3-phase service.
What is swap two conductors?
1200
This is a force of nature that personal protective grounding may or may not protect the worker against.
What is lightning?
1200
This was the result at a utility substation with a 50MVA transformer where the regulator position indicator said it was on neutral, but was not.
What is a fatality resulted from a worker receiving 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 80% of his body when the regulator blew its lid?
1600
This indicates the circumstances in which it is permissible for two people working in the same bucket to work on two different potentials simultaneously.
What is never?
1600
As long as the hydro vac has this safety system in place during excavation, no OUPS ticket is required.
What is hydro vac excavations always require an OUPS ticket?
1600
This is the minimum decibel (db) level where OSHA requires hearing protection depending on time of exposure.
What is 90db?
1600
These are the most common types of injuries associated with skid loaders that cause fatalities.
What are crushing injuries?
1600
When a source of induction such as an overhead EHV transmission line is present, what phenomenon and hazard does introducing bracket grounds at the jobsite create?
What is circulating current?
1600
This is what is still possible to exist even when a combination truck and trailer are under the GCWR.
What is it can still be overweight?
1600
This is a specific type of connector that can be used with rope and synthetic webbing as well as steel and aluminum.
What is a carabiner?
1600
This is what the phrase "wye-wye always tie" means.
What is tie down the high side wye bus to ground?
1600
This is the type of electrical contact that occurs when a tree trimmer gets between an energized branch and the trunk of the tree.
What is indirect contact?
1600
This was the type of construction that confused Brandon Bauer from United EC in PA so that he thought he was contacting the neutral but was actually contacting the phase.
What is an H-structure that had the phase in the low position and the neutral up high (April 8, 2024)?
2000
This is the form of insulation that is required to be worn as secondary protection whenever performing certain tasks such as ground work on an energized job, and touching grounded conductors during storm restoration.
What is dielectric footwear?
2000
This is the code on the positive response system that indicates a high profile facility.
What is 006?
2000
This is the type of standard that ANSI, NEC, ASTM, and NESC are all considered to be.
What is a "consensus" standard?
2000
When any size excavator is in operation, this is what is not permissible for other workers to do simultaneously.
What is to be down in the excavation?
2000
This is one of three things that determines the intensity of a magnetic field that is induced into an overhead line from another energized source.
What is distance from the source to the line?
What is distance that the lines run parallel?
What is the amount of current present on the inducing line?
2000
This attribute of tiedown equipment is required due to loads commonly working themselves loose when going down the road.
What is adjustable?
2000
This is what fall arrest equipment allows the user to do in a limited sense prior to the equipment arresting the fall.
What is fall?
2000
This is the current rating of a 120/240V 15kVA transformer whose secondary windings have been paralleled for a wye application.
What is 125A (or 120A)?
2000
This is what Part 4 of the National Electrical Safety Code represents.
What are Work Rules?
2000
This is the amount of voltage that the high side of the transformer was energized at after receiving electrical backfeed after a solar auto-disconnect switch failed when replacing the pole.
What is 4100 volts?