Electrical safety programs in the workplace for most companies are relatively nonexistent. Violations that occur due to no electrical safety policy are due to a nonexistent LOTO program in accordance with NFPA 70E. Violation of 1910.137 due to no outline of PPE required for electrical work and lack of training on electrical hazards. Going over several books that define electrical safety, NFPA 70E defines an electrically safe work condition as “a state in which an electrical conductor or circuit part has been disconnected from energized parts, locked/gagged in accordance with established standards, tested to ensure the absence of voltage, and grounded if determined necessary (Fontaine, 2015). That was a lot of verbiage for what I believe they
