Electrical Safety: Safety and Health for Electrical Trades – Student Manual

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Fowler, Thaddeus W. ; Miles, Karen K.
• Description:
  This manual will present many topics. There are four main types of electrical injuries: electrocution (death due to electrical shock), electrical shock, burns, and falls. The dangers of electricity, electrical shock, and the resulting injuries will be discussed. The various electrical hazards will be described. You will learn about the safety model, an important tool for recognizing, evaluating, and controlling hazards. Important definitions and notes are shown in the margins. Practices that will help keep you safe and free of injury are emphasized. To give you an idea of the hazards caused by electricity, case studies about real-life deaths will be described. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  "This document was prepared by Thaddeus W. Fowler, Ed.D. and Karen K. Miles, Ph.D., Education and Information Division (EID) of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). " - p. iv
  
  Supersedes NIOSH 2002-123.
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 79) and index.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Electric Injuries Electricity Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Occupational-hazards; Occupational-health; Occupational-exposure; Electrical-equipment; Electrical-charge; Electrical-burns; Electrical-shock; Electrical-workers; Electric-power-generation
• Source:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2009-113, 2009 Apr; :1-81
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Teaching Materials
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  92 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035179
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2009-108942
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:19a3e64f01a048ae7fa4b44643f68751ec6d71f01053a930663459e613b933069fb4738994918646e1ec89c04fe881b648536c4dfe6cb38551ba9354a1a3af77
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5283/cdc_5283_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.47 MB ]