Sponsored by e-Hazard

Electrical safety is difficult to establish and even more difficult to sustain. These challenges are driven by an evolving workforce and ever-changing technology. OSHA has electrical safety requirements for commercial industry users, utilities (power generation, transmission and distribution) and construction. These requirements govern both technology and work practices. We start by creating specific rules applicable to our work – remove the generic language of OSHA and replace it with the specifics of our workplace. This webinar uses the principles from a consensus standard – NFPA 70E-2024 – to establish these specific (and customized) electrical safety work practices.

Once these principles are established, the webinar discusses practical means to sustain these safe work practices. The first step is determining how effectively these safe work principles are being implemented. In addition to looking at written documents, work practices and equipment health assessments must be reviewed. We discuss what to inspect, how to perform these inspections and the frequency of the inspections. The webinar will conclude with a case history on an electrical failure that resulted in equipment damage and injury to a worker. We discuss how the principles of this webinar would have prevented these losses and harm.

Speaker

Zarheer Jooma, Partner, e-Hazard

Zarheer Jooma is a professional engineer and partner at e-Hazard. He holds a master’s (cum-laude) 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’s published several peer-reviewed papers on electrical safety, spoke at numerous conferences, contributed to wording on 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 IEEE journals and incoming chair for the IEEE Electrical Safety Workshop 2025.

Moderator

Barry Bottino, Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine.

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