Electrical Safety: 5 Ways to Re-Energize your Safety Training

Employees who work on and around powerful electrical equipment face unique risks. Dangers, such as electrical shock, electrocution, and arc flashes, can result in severe injury or death, but the nature of electricity itself—silent and invisible—means workers must be especially vigilant.

Cognitive bias is what makes it easy for an employee who works day in and day out with a specific machine to become less alert to electrical risk, while also making it more difficult to engage that employee in appropriate safety training.