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This article presents the current statistics of electrical accidents in France, and describes the basic physical consequences of electric current passing through the human body. Although the number of electrical accidents may not seem very high compared with the total numbers of traffic or domestic accidents, prevention remains essential. Some sectors of activity are especially exposed to risks, such as construction, public works, electrical installations in industry and public distribution networks. Although the safety of electrical equipment has made notable progress, accident rates still run at almost one thousand per year.
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Christian ATLANI: Engineer, member of the GIMELEC association of electrical equipment, control and associated services industries - Member of AFNOR's U 21 and UF 78 commissions - Member of the CENELEC BTTF 62-3 committee - Former leader of the working group responsible for revising UTE C 18-510, UTE (Union technique de l'électricité) Commission U 21. - Former General Rapporteur of the Live Working Committee - This article is the updated version of the article [D 5 101] entitled "Prevention of electrical accidents. Overview" written by Christian ATLANI and Dominique SERRE and published in 2012.
INTRODUCTION
The widespread use of electrical energy in all its applications and in all fields (from the production of electrical energy to the end consumer) means that electrical risk is present everywhere, and must be assessed and controlled on every occasion.
Present and invisible like all the risks inherent in higher forms of energy, it does have the merit of being well known and easy to control, which, all things considered, makes it almost familiar and in any case less feared than, for example, the danger of ionizing radiation.
Articles [D 5 101],
This article presents the accident statistics to date and the fundamentals of electric shocks and currents passing through the human body. Although the relative weight of accidents of electrical origin does not appear to be very high compared with those caused by other risks, such as traffic and the domestic environment, prevention is nonetheless essential, especially in certain sectors of activity that are more particularly exposed to risk, such as construction, public works, electrical installations in industry and public distribution networks.
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prevention | electrick shock | electrical accident | current through human body
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- Guide pratique. Effets du courant sur l'homme et les animaux domestiques - CEI/TS 60479-1 - 2005
- Guide pratique. Effets du courant passant par le corps humain - CEI/TS 60479-2 - 2017
- Guide pratique. Effets du courant sur l'homme et les animaux domestiques - CEI/TS 60479-3 - 1998
- Exploitation des installations - EN 50110-1 - 2013
- Plant operation – National appendices - EN 50110-2 - 2010
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