Utilities Share Best Practices At Fall Protection Symposium in Colorado

July 11, 2014
Western Area Power Administration sponsored a Fall Protection Symposium and Roundtable July 8-9 in Loveland, Colorado, to discuss the newly released OSHA fall protection regulations. At this summit, utilities from across North America shared their current fall protection programs, techniques, processes and procedures to protect their field workforce from fall-related injuries and fatalities. The event featured presentations from utilities, contractors, training entities and vendors.

With the new OSHA fall protection guidelines around the corner, electric utilities are challenged with investing in new devices, modifying their structures, devising new engineering standards, and training their field workforce. To help utilities to comply with these new regulations, which go into effect next April, the Western Area Power Administration presented a free fall protection symposium July 8-9 in Loveland, Colorado.

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Amy Fischbach | Amy Fischbach, EUO Contributing Editor

Amy Fischbach is the contributing editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission and Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].

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