Of the many dangers facing construction workers, hazards of working in close proximity to high-voltage power lines are near the top of the list. Without realizing it, mobile cranes (cherry pickers, man lifts, crane booms, boom lifts, basket cranes, etc.) can easily come into contact with live power lines, leading to potentially serious or fatal […]
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How Do We Safely Manage the Dangers Posed by Electricity?
Thursday 20 Aug 2015
Not long ago someone asked “have you had any challenging cases involving electricity?” The answer of course is yes. Electricity is a dangerous commodity with which we surround ourselves daily. Because we take steps to confine it to wires behind outlets we can sometimes fool ourselves into seeing it as safe. But it is not […]