148848 Prescriptive requirements: The missing link in the electrical safety compliance puzzle?

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 1:15 PM

Palmer Hickman, BA , Labor Safety and Health, National Labor College, Silver Spring, MD
The author, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, expolores how prescriptive electrical safety-related work practices may be a solution to help contractors train and protect workers. Fifth year apprentoce inside construction wiremen were surveyed to determine their experience with, and understanding of, both performance- and prescriptive-based training.

Learning Objectives:
See abstract ID 147946, password 677945 submitted by Ruth Ruttenberg on behalf of a panel of 4 student researchers and one professor

Keywords: Occupational Health, Occupational Safety

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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