Electrical injury drills: Approaches, learnings, and best practices

摘要

Occupational electrical injuries are low frequency/high consequence events. What this means for an industrial facility's electrical safety professional is that a facility's emergency response team may have never needed to respond to an electrical injury case. If an electrical incident were to occur, however, an electrical injury is more likely to be fatal than most other types of occupational injuries. This fact highlights the need for facilities to have a specific electrical emergency response plan to ensure timely and appropriate actions are taken in case of an incident. Conducting periodic electrical injury drills will test a facility's emergency readiness and identify learning and growth opportunities. When planning an electrical injury drill, the scenario and type of drill selected can vary depending on the type and frequency of electrical activities performed at the site, emergency response team training, and facility resources. Using data and observations from electrical emergency drills conducted at different industrial sites, this paper examines a variety of approaches to electrical injury drills as well as the learnings and best practices which resulted.