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Home Articles Safety Management Leadership Development Worksite Safety Frontline Fundamentals Train the Trainer 101 Tailgate Topics Q & A Voice of Experience Grounding Equipment Operations OSHA Articles Industry Events Products VIEW FULL iP ISSUE COLLECTION Volume 20 - IP 2023 Volume 19 - IP 2022 Volume 18 - IP 2021 Volume 17 – IP 2020 Podcasts Utility Safety in Depth Tailgate Topics Voice of Experience Utility Safety Solutions Frontline Webinars Conference Register for Conference Products Submit a Product Release Vendor Video Library Advertise Submit Ad Materials View Media Kit Resources Download iP Digital App Tailgate Topics E-Newsletter Utility Products E-Newsletter Books Education Contribute to Promote Safety CUSP Certification Subscribe Now! LATEST TAILGATE TOPICS — Do You Really Care? Fighting PPE Complacency By Scott Francis Am I My Brother’s Keeper – Or Not? By Mack Turner, CUSP Incidents Require an Immediate Response By Charles Keeling, CUSP Cleaning Up the Ointment By Steve Martin, CUSP Mitigating Predictive Processing Errors By Bill Martin, CUSP, NRP, RN, DIMM Cable Safety Considerations for Electric Utility Workers By John M. Perez Days : Hours : Minutes : Seconds VIEW LATEST ISSUE Get the iP Digital Edition App iPi Monthly Forum for Utility Professionals The iPi monthly forum is where you can get answers to questions you have from subject matter experts like David McPeak, Jim Vaughn, Danny Raines and other utility safety and ops professionals like yourself. Forums will include industry specific topics, challenges, trends, and solutions along with best practices in leadership, operations, and safety. 1-HR FORUM | EARN 0.5 CUSP POINTS | FEE: COMPLIMENTARY FOR MORE INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE, INSIGHT AND STRATEGY FOR UTILITY SAFETY & OPS PROFESSIONALS For excellence to become a reality, these capacities must be developed, monitored and synergized. Five Core Capacities for Sustainable Safety Excellence Does your organization have the capacity to achieve sustainable excellence in safety performance and culture? For excellence to become a reality in any important area of operations, especially safety, there are five vital capacities that organizations must develop, monitor and synergize to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced and ever-changing world: system, leadership, engagement, cultural […] Read More Lineworkers must use the four lifesaving rules for zero contact to protect themselves. Solar Backfeed Safety on Distribution and Secondary Circuits Editor’s Note: This timely article specifically addresses the contemporary issue of green-energy backfeed endangering power-line workers. Unlike engine-powered backup generators, green energy makes no telltale noise to alert workers to its presence and possible hazards. Incident Prevention encourages all employers to assess the risks related to backup energy sources and adopt effective storm-work hazard analysis, isolation and other protective procedures for worker safety. It is night and you are working storm trouble on a single-phase line. The line fuse is blown, and you find wire down… More News… The new initiative being rolled out by one utility contractor aims to improve safety by increasing engagement among crew members. An Experiment in Crew Member Engagement Training is an essential component of safely operating and maintaining these machines. Skid-Steer Loaders: Hazard Awareness and Recommended Safety Practices This educational technique is ideally suited as a resource for those wanting to improve the effectiveness of safety training. Getting to the Heart of At-Risk Behaviors with Facilitative Learning In a recent workshop with a client in southeast Louisiana, a breakout session reached a tipping point. The rhythmic flow of dialogue among the seven supervisors in the group found an unscripted but purposeful path of its own. The task given to the group involved identifying at-risk behaviors or s… Here are five topics to consider integrating into your team’s protective garment training. FR/AR Apparel Use: Are Your Workers Properly Trained? Many workers in the utilities space bravely put their personal safety at risk every day on the job. Facing potential hazards such as arc flashes, flash fires and unpredictable elements of nature, these workers’ personal protective equipment – particularly their garments – is their last line of defense. However, proper apparel use can sometimes be overlooked or deprioritized, putting workers at … Few utility businesses currently meet all of the transformational ESG requirements, placing them at odds with the future of work. ESG: Health and Safety Obstacle or Opportunity? Over the past few years, much has been written and discussed about the role of environmental, social and governance, commonly referred to as ESG. Investors and customers are increasingly applying these nonfinancial factors as part of their analysis process to identify material risks and growth opportunities in the companies they decide to invest in. According to research from the Weinreb Group,… Ruling Spans and Proper Conductor Sag The cold winter weather of recent months has prompted many conversations about proper sagging and tension on transmission and distribution conductors. Improper sagging and excessively high tension on conductors – past their rated breaking strength – have caused unscheduled system outages, but suc… Switching and Tagging Discipline is one of the many things that have served our industry well. Decades before OSHA was established by the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, our industry already had disciplined procedures for switching, controlling and tagging circuits. When OSHA began to esta… The practice of receiving feedback will make you better at giving it. Receiving Feedback Most leadership development programs talk about the vital skill of giving feedback, as they should. I hope you’ve been trained on coaching and feedback and that you practice and enhance those skills frequently. But what about receiving feedback? That is another skill that can be learned, pract… April – May 2024 Q&A Q: We recently participated in a safety seminar during which OSHA’s digger derrick/crane exemption was discussed. We have used the exemption with digger derricks to raise baskets of travelers to pole-tops for wire-pulling installation. Are we in compliance if we are not using a certified crane op… Subscribe via your favorite podcast platform + + + + An Experiment in Crew Member Engagement Skid-Steer Loaders: Hazard Awareness and Recommended Safety Practices This educational technique is ideally suited as a resource for those wanting to improve the effectiveness of safety training. Getting to the Heart of At-Risk Behaviors with Facilitative Learning In a recent workshop with a client in southeast Louisiana, a breakout session reached a tipping point. The rhythmic flow of dialogue among the seven supervisors in the group found an unscripted but purposeful path of its own. The task given to the group involved identifying at-risk behaviors or s… Lineworkers must use the four lifesaving rules for zero contact to protect themselves. Solar...