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    New Line Life Podcast: ICYMI: Lineman's Rodeo Week Connects the Competitors

    Jan. 24, 2025
    This audio story is narrated from the second feature article in the December 2024 print issue about the International Lineman's Rodeo Week.
    Amy Fischbach
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    Line Life Podcast: Spotlight on the Lineman's Rodeo Safety and Training Conference

    Oct. 18, 2024
    For Part 1 on our series about the International Lineman's Rodeo Week, we are kicking it off with voices from the safety and training conference.
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    T&D Talk, Episode 4: Maximizing FR Protection for Your Field Workforce

    Sept. 6, 2023
    Derek Sang of Bulwark FR shares strategies for lineworkers to get maximum protection from FR clothing through proper selection, care, maintenance and use.
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    Can We Improve Safety for Utility Workers?

    Sept. 14, 2022
    It is still chilling to realize that a person died every 111 minutes in 2020 from a work-related injury.
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    Lineman's Rodeo Safety Conference Speaker Offers Free Podcast Episodes

    Nov. 18, 2021
    Dr. Rich Gasaway, who spoke at the safety conference two years ago, is presenting his Situational Awareness Matters show.
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    Exelon Prioritizes Workforce Development

    Nov. 20, 2023
    The company has a unified strategy to develop an expanded, diverse talent pipeline.
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    Commissioners Make Compromise Call on PG&E Undergrounding Plan

    Nov. 20, 2023
    The ‘hybrid approach’ will fund about 60% of the utility’s undergrounding requests and shift more work to covered conductors.
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    PG&E team members working recently at an undergrounding project in Vacaville, northeast of Oakland
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    PG&E’s Poppe: ‘We Don’t Want to Have to Make Choices About Which Essential Work We Do First’

    Oct. 27, 2023
    The utility’s leaders say regulators’ proposed general rate case decisions come up short in funding wildfire risk mitigation and other resiliency plans.
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    The Z-45 SUB within its voltage range limitations does not reduce the need for proper PPE and work practices but removes workers from a path to ground, insulates the operator, reduces human error factors associated with grounding and bonding, and protects workers that violate minimum approach distances.
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    Increase Productivity and Safety in Substations

    Oct. 20, 2023
    Working in substations can be crowded as well as dangerous, but Avista Utilities workers found they could work more efficiently in an insulated lift.