The report will
focus on the following categories:
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- NEC Compliance
- OSHA / NFPA 70E Arc Flash & Electrical Safety Compliance
- Assured Equipment Grounding
- Ground Fault Circuit Interruption Protection
- Lock Out / Tag Out
- Qualified Electrical Worker Training
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Each site visit will entail an inspection of equipment and installations
to identify items from the service point of your buildings down through
the feeder circuits to various branch circuits. Please note that the
inspectors will be taking pictures. Martin Technical will also examine
and assess your personnel and workplace procedures. Thus, Martin Technical
will require all current recordkeeping on all electrical maintenance
personnel down to the maintenance shops, their tools, meters, PPE, workplace
standards, and maintenance record keeping and PM procedures. The Inspection/Report
will itemize observations in which CFR or NFPA standards not being met
and the recommended corrective action. The criticality of the items
will be ranked on a subjective scale of 1 to 5. This ranking will serve
as a "to do list" that your maintenance and engineering teams
can use as "road map" to corrective action.
SERVICES NOT INCLUDED
We exclude the
following related to all of the studies identified above:
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Engineering
design and system modifications
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Electrical
construction or electrical fieldwork of any kind.
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Testing,
calibrating, adjusting and setting of electrical equipment and
/or over-current protective devices.
DELIVERABLES of ELECTRICAL SAFETY AUDIT
Recommendations
and Corrective Actions Report with Critical Corrective Action Ranking
SAMPLE REPORT INFORMATION
| Company Location: |
Lancaster, PA |
| Item #: |
8 |
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Building:
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Mobile Maintenance Facility
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Location:
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Outside - Near Dock Door
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Maintenance Hazard Rating:
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3
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Observation / Description of concern:
Electrical service equipment mounted in "line of
sight" of passing heavy machinery without protection.

Substantiation:
In 29 CFR 1910.303(g)(1)(vii)(B), OSHA states that outdoor
electric equipment shall be installed in suitable enclosures and shall
be protected from accidental contact by unauthorized personnel, or by
vehicular traffic. 1910.303(g)(2)(ii) requires that electric equipment
that is likely to be exposed to physical damage must have enclosures
or guards to be arranged and of such strength as to prevent such damage.
The NEC requires in subsection 110.12(B) that there be no damaged parts
that may adversely affect safe operation or mechanical strength of the
equipment such as parts that are broken.
Recommended corrective action:
Place substantial bollards in front of and outside of
the working space of the equipment or relocate equipment to a place
not in line of sight of heavy equipment. An example of a typical bollard
for protection:
