Sponsored by e-Hazard

Utilities and commercial industry often have well-regulated safety management systems. These systems are then adapted to electrical safety, and that’s where the confusion begins. Having visited several operations across the country, it appears that challenges between being pragmatic and being compliant exist. Does every tasks need a risk assessment? What if it’s troubleshooting and the hazards aren’t known? What if it’s a breakdown? These questions and the confusion around risk assessments don’t benefit electrical safety or the electrical worker.

This webinar is intended to address this confusion by establishing the basics of electrical safety and delineating electrical shock and electrical arc flash. We’ll discuss the electrical risk assessment requirements of OSHA and consensus standards, as well as introduce three fundamental steps to perform electrical risk assessments. We’ll discuss concepts such as baseline and continuous risk assessment, and cover what written programs are required. We’ll also introduce practical control and mitigation guidance, and how to make these streamlined and practical for the person performing electrical work.

Speaker

Zarheer Jooma, Partner, e-Hazard

Zarheer Jooma is a professional engineer and partner at e-Hazard. He has a master’s degree in electrical engineering, is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has convened and chaired arc flash safety standards, and is a member of both ASTM F18 and IEC TC-78. Zarheer performs electrical network design, arc flash studies, electrical safety training, incident investigations and auditing. He has published several peer-reviewed papers on electrical safety, spoke at numerous conferences, contributed to wording in the NFPA 70E standard, and is actively engaged as a subject matter expert on the IEEE 1584 suite of standards. Zarheer is the technical paper review chair for two of IEEE’s journals and incoming chair for the IEEE Electrical Safety Workshop 2025.

Moderator

Alan Ferguson
Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine

Alan is associate editor of Safety+Health and serves as co-host of the magazine’s “On the Safe Side” podcast.