Electric power engineering education traditionally covers safety of the power equipment and systems. Little attention, if any, is given to the safety of people. When they reach professional status, most power engineers are not familiar with electric safety issues such as practices governing site works or grounding techniques of dwellings, hospitals, and factories. Designed for both electrical engineering student and practicing power engineers, Electric Safety: Practice and Standards provides the knowledge and analysis they need to be well versed in electric safety.

Contents
Fundamentals of Electricity
Basic Components of an Electric Grid
Psychological Effects of Electricity
Ground Resistance
General Hazards of Electricity
Induced Voltage due to Electric Field
Induced Voltage due to magnetic Field
De-Energized line work
Live-Line Work
Arc Flash
Stray and Contact Voltages
Electric Safety under power lines
Coupling between power lines and pipelines, railroads, and telecommunication cables

Features:

Includes techniques to assess safety practices at worksites and provides remedies to correct safety problems
Addresses the elusive stray voltage problem and provides techniques to mitigate its impact in dwellings as well as in sensitive installations such as hospitals and dairy farms
Provides approximate, yet accurate, analyses and techniques that can be used to assess electric safety without the need for extensive computation or elaborate programs
Includes several case studies from real events and examples demonstrating how variations in electric safety procedure implementation influence safety levels
Based on the authors’ years of experience as an expert witness and electric safety training instructor, the book covers the analysis of electric safety practices as well as the interpretations of various safety codes. Including homework problems and a solutions manual, this book is a comprehensive guide to recognize and eliminate hazards of electric shocks for professionals working on electric power equipment, as well as people such as the general public in commonly used places, farms workers and animals, and hospital patients.