Utility Line Work Safety Inspection

1. Equipment operators and linemen maintain a distance of 10 feet away from overhead conductors for voltages less than 50kV or ten feet plus four inches for every 10 kV above 50kV.

2. Minimum Clearance Distance is maintained from any object to the entire boom tip, platform occupants, and boom structure to provide protection between two potentials in the work area.

3. Personnel in bucket trucks or who are exposed to potentially hot work wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including arc-rated clothing, insulating gloves, sleeves, and hard hats.

4. Line Covers such as rubber line hose and blankets rated for the voltage are used when it is possible that personnel or equipment could be exposed to contact with energized lines.

5. Digger derrick equipent is ONLY used for augering holes for poles carrying electric or telecommunication lines, placing and removing the poles, and for handling associated materials for installation on, or removal from, the poles.

6. Utility workers are trained in the specific safety practices required by the type of work they are assigned; including applicable emergency procedures, such as pole-top and manhole rescue.

7. Only qualified employees (I.e. Quaified Electrical Workers) are assigned to work on or with exposed energized lines or parts of equipment.

8. All Operators deploying or retracting outriggers must have a clear view unless other employees are well outside the range of motion.

9. All Operators know the maximum load rating and other design limitations (like maximum angle from horizontal) before lifting loads using mobile equipment.

10. Are utility poles inspected for the following prior to climbing or working on them: woodpecker damage, evidence of ants or termites, split pole tops, lightning damage, broken ground wire, broken or split crossarms, broken/slack guy wire, broken/missing insulator, impinging tree limbs, leaking distribution transformers, failed lightning arrestors, excessive leaning, and other damage visible from the ground?

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