480V Electrical Cabinets

roger said:
Look into OSHA 1926 sub part K. I may not be citing the correct part but the PPE is required.
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It looks like PPE should have been provided, education should have been provided, and a permit should have been requested in all 21 jobs my husband performed. We are lucky he isn't dead:/
 
ggunn said:
Not to put too fine a point on it, but risk to human life is a risk of financial loss.
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Exactly! I guess I should have asked my husband more questions and I would have pushed the company to get him the proper PPE before they fired him:/
 
BiomedTech said:
Thank you. Would never think a company would work so carelessly.
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I am not surprised at all Hospitals can be very profit motivated.
I have worked in a few other industries and we get excuses often if not daily uneducated middle mangers 'o this never gets shut down you cant shut that down' ... try working at an airport
I have even seen a air-traffic control tower get moved over to a temp so proper shutdown can happen.
Like Jim said you want a planned shutdown not a unplanned shutdown you never know who may be on that escalator when you accidentally trip the breaker...
 
I feel the same way. Actually, he didn't work for the hospital it was a third party and if I have to guess, I will say, they don't even know the job they are doing. I have not liked any of the decisions they have made, and I could have saved them thousands already in the work my husband has done. Lol, companies.
 
BiomedTech said:
It goes to the MRI, which never gets de energized without the Manufacture getting involved. don't think the company got permits to even do the work. I am trying to educate myself, ...
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I think you misunderstand the permit issue. The company doesn't "get" permits. Many companies establish a policy that a "internal" permit be issued to allow hot work. It is a process to ensure that the higher ups are aware that hot work has to be performed and hopefully ensure that qualified people with proper training, equipment and process are performing the work. Cynically it is also a means of management covering their butts.
 
BiomedTech said:
Exactly! I guess I should have asked my husband more questions and I would have pushed the company to get him the proper PPE before they fired him:/
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Sorry to be blunt, but it sounds like your husband bears his portion of the responsibility. I will speak in third person for deniability. Many electricians, I would say most, work for companies who, today, have policies against working things hot. From the top down, these policies are violated. As long as the company doesn't encourage violation, the responsibility for violating is on the worker in my opinion. The worst thing is peer pressure. If, a person refuses to do the hot work and the foreman turns around and does it themselves is the thing I would look for. We have a culture going back over 100 years of working stuff hot. It is difficult to turn that ship.

An analogy. Speeding is illegal. We go 10 mph above speed limit all day long. Cops do too. Get in an accident going 10mph over the speed limit and it is going to be a blame factor for the accident. Kill a person or cause extreme bodily harm and you may find you are criminally prosecuted. Are you willing to say the speeding driver was unjustly blamed?
 
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