PROJECT TITLE :

A Systems Safety Approach to Occupational Electrical Safety

ABSTRACT:

For the past decade, the discussion of occupational electrical safety within the U.S. has largely targeted on compliance with NFPA70E, Normal for Electrical Safety within the Workplace. Without taking faraway from the importance of the necessities in the standard, this paper describes a more comprehensive answer, primarily based on proven ideas derived from systems safety engineering. This paper provides an overview of systems safety engineering and includes a twenty year case history of a international Fortune 500 company's effort to change the electrical safety culture in its operations to demonstrate results of applying systems safety techniques to electrical safety.