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Hazard, hazardous, risk and risk assessment have all been added to the definitions section, further delineating and separating the use of those terms. An alternate to arc rated shirts and pants in hrc 1 or hrc 2 is an arc rated coveralls with minimum of specific notes. Csa z462, workplace electrical safety standard is a standard of the canadian standards. It supersedes the previous editions published in 2015, 2012, and 2008. And now, sometime before the golf season ends and deer season begins, nfpa 70e and. Csa z46208 workplace electrical safety is a canadian standard prepared by the canadian standards association. Csa z462 08 recommends when incident energy exceeds 40 calcm 2 at the working distance, greater emphasis than normal can be necessary with respect to deenergizing before working within the arc flash protection boundary of the exposed electrical conductors or circuit parts. Standard for electrical safety in the workplace or csa z462. Z462 workplace electrical safety and csa z460 control of hazardous energy to help to encourage implementation of safe equipment operations and procedures. Documents sold on the ansi webstore are in electronic adobe acrobat pdf format, however some iso and iec standards are available from amazon in hard copy format. Nfpa 70e2004 standard for electrical safety in the workplace is an american standard. Understanding ieee 15842018 and the 2017 nec article 240. Table 1 approach boundaries to energized electrical conductors or circuit parts for shock protection distance from energized.
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