2018 NFPA 70E®: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace

Ensure workplace safety from electrical hazards by adhering to the 2018 edition of NFPA 70E. Electrical incidents can lead to fatalities and permanently disabling injuries in an instant. Each year, hundreds of deaths and thousands of burn injuries occur due to shock, electrocution, arc flash, and arc blast, most of which could be prevented by complying with the NFPA 70 Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace. This evolving Standard now includes risk assessment, incorporating human factors such as human error. Annex Q, Human Performance and Workplace Electrical Safety, offers guidance. NFPA 70E emphasizes the hierarchy of risk controls, stating that eliminating the hazard must be the first priority. (Softbound, Approx. 102 pp., 2018)