extension cords

[RHJohnson]

I too had never heard PJ or PS. Local to your area or plant. I have worked at somewhere between 15 and 20 plants - maybe they were all in states that required licensed electricians.
At all of those plants during the construction damaged extension cords were thrown out. Repairs not allowed. I was told OSHA did not allow repair, as the made up end was not watertight.
I also think it was more expensive to buy the cord caps and make the repair.

 

[KentAT]

My company's safety department used to insist that per OSHA regs, that we could repair one end of an original extension cord, but we cannot repair both ends.

They say for one end, we repaired it. For both ends, we destroyed it. Go figure.

But here is OSHA's interpretaitions of their regs, matching the info in Pierre's link:

From 1992: http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=20709



Kent