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ABSTRACT
This article is dedicated to the prevention of electric shock in the operation of public or private electrical installations. The risks incurred are direct contacts with bare live conductive parts in normal operation and indirect contacts with metallic parts put under voltage in the occasion of incidents. The risks resulting from an electrical arc must be also considered. Operation of public or private electrical installation standards define the means to be implemented in order to ensure the protection of personnel against such electrical risks.
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Christian ATLANI: Engineer - Member of the GIMELEC group of electrical equipment, control and associated services industries - Member of AFNOR's U21 and UF78 commissions - Member of the CENELEC BTTF 62-3 committee - Former General Rapporteur of the Live Working Committee
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This article describes the operation of electrical structures and installations, i.e. all construction, maintenance, repair and dismantling operations, as well as fire prevention in these facilities.
The protection of personnel during construction, maintenance, repair and dismantling operations is now governed by European and French rules that employers must scrupulously respect. These are simple, common-sense rules that require everyone, at all times, to appreciate and assess the electrical risk at its true value, and to apply the rules set out in numerous publications. In addition to training, the employer is obliged to issue the appropriate authorizations for the operations to be carried out, as soon as there is an electrical risk.
This article presents the operating modes and procedures used in Europe, i.e. de-energized work, which offers the best safety since there is no risk of electric shock, work in the vicinity where protective measures enable work to be carried out in a safe area, and finally energized work where the permanent presence of voltage is managed by rigorous personnel protection...
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KEYWORDS
electric shock | safety measures | electrical arc protection | collective protective equipments | personnal protective equipments
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Standards and norms
- Recueil d'instruction de sécurité électrique pour les ouvrages - UTE C 18-510-1 - 2012
- Prescriptions de sécurité d'ordre électrique relatives aux opérations effectuées sur les installations de production d'électricité ou dans leur environnement - UTE C 18-510-2 - 2013
- Prescriptions de sécurité d'ordre électrique relatives aux opérations effectuées sur les installations électriques ou dans leur environnement...
Regulations
Directive 76/177/EC of December 18, 1975 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers
Directive 79/196/EEC of February 6, 1979 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers
Directive 9/391/EEC of June 12, 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety...
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European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization, CENELEC http://www.cenelec.org
European Committee for Standardization, CEN http://www.cenorm.be
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