The Difference Between Voltage and Current
It is crucial for workers who work around electricity to be aware of high voltage lines and wires in which current is flowing because those lines represent hazards. In 2020, 126 workers died from electrocution incidents in the United States, most from direct contact...
Natural Disasters Create Electrical Safety Challenges
Natural Disasters Create Electrical Safety Challenges Extreme weather events such as tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, storms, fires, and earthquakes commonly result in power outages. The workers responding to these natural disasters are at a heightened risk of...
How First Responders Can Benefit From PVDs
The term “first responders” is used to designate anyone called to be the first on the scene to respond to an emergency. Emergencies include natural disasters, accidents, and deliberate attacks, such as terrorist activities, shootings, arson, or other...
How Important Is Rapid Emergency Response?
On February 16, 1968, the first 911 call was made in Haleyville, Alabama. That call marked the advent of the 911 universal emergency call system, first proposed in 1957, that was engineered specifically to enable people anywhere in the United States to call one,...