It is common knowledge that electricity can be dangerous, but the hazards are multiplied when the electrical supply is high voltage. Direct contact with, or being in close proximity of, high voltage infrastructure can pose potential health threats.
Accidents involving sources of high voltage electricity can range from death through electrocution, to electric shock injuries from electrical arcs, internal flash burns, flame burns from ignition of clothing, or injuries from losing body control and falling off equipment.
The overwhelming majority of accidents occur when installing, operating, repairing, inspecting or maintaining power generating plants, power transmission equipment (both overhead power lines or underground cables), at substations, on electrified rail networks, or at oil and gas facilities.
However, the minority can be linked to contact with overhead lines by ladders, antenna, cranes and telescopic overhead plant during construction or maintenance, tree trimming or clearance, and even entangled lines from anglers. Other problem areas are excavations, tunnelling, and mining, when underground electrical cables are damaged or sheared.
Label Source has a range of products to clearly mark dangers from high voltage electrical supply. These can include signs to identify electrical equipment such as transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, pylons and towers warning of high voltage and danger of death; signs for the mandatory use of protective equipment and safety wear such as hard hats, gloves and rubber soled boot; labels for operating instructions on equipment for termination, cable jointing, pressure testing and fault location; calibration labelling on test instrumentation; and signs and underground warning tapes for buried power cables.
So together using our products we can provide guidance and information to make operating with, and near, high voltage generating and distribution equipment a much safer environment.
