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+1Overhead power lines
Contact with, or arcing from, live overhead electric lines and services when moving equipment or materials.
Also known as: Overhead electric lines, Overhead services, Powerlines, Contact and damage to overhead electric lines, Contact with overhead electric lines, Contact with overhead power lines, Contact & damage to electric lines
How to control overhead power lines
- Ask the network operator to de-energise, relocate or otherwise protect overhead lines before work starts, where possible.
- Find out the no-go zone distances set by your state or territory regulator and network operator, and mark them on site.
- Fit height limiters or proximity alarms to cranes, tippers and other plant working near lines.
- Use a trained safety observer whenever plant or long materials could come near the no-go zone.
- Treat all overhead lines as live, and do not rely on tiger tails or other markers as insulation.
- If plant contacts a line, stay inside if it is safe, warn others to keep clear and call the network operator.
Typical controls, most effective first. Your SWMS sets the controls for your own job and site.
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