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13 Overhead Powerline

1) Work involving vehicles or equipment near overhead power lines poses a serious risk of accidental contact or flashovers, which can kill or injure people. 2) To safely manage work near power lines, planners must determine if lines are present and assume they are live, consult line owners, and use measures like avoidance, safety distances, access control, and supervision to control risks. 3) Key precautions include maintaining safe clearances, not allowing vehicles or materials that could breach clearances, modifying vehicles to prevent reaching lines, instructing operators, and supervising work and access.

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13 Overhead Powerline

1) Work involving vehicles or equipment near overhead power lines poses a serious risk of accidental contact or flashovers, which can kill or injure people. 2) To safely manage work near power lines, planners must determine if lines are present and assume they are live, consult line owners, and use measures like avoidance, safety distances, access control, and supervision to control risks. 3) Key precautions include maintaining safe clearances, not allowing vehicles or materials that could breach clearances, modifying vehicles to prevent reaching lines, instructing operators, and supervising work and access.

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Br. C.A.T. International Co.

Limited HSEB/13/13 19 April 2013

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ccidental contact with live overhead power lines kills people and causes many serious injuries every
year. People are also harmed when a person or object gets too close to a line and a flashover occurs.
Work involving high vehicles or long equipment is particularly high risk such as Lorry mounted cranes
(or Hiabs), Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWP's), scaffold poles, tipper vehicles, cranes, ladders.

Remember: carried out under or near overhead lines, and can't be


done somewhere else. Make sure materials are not
 Going close to a live overhead line can result in a
placed near overhead lines.
flashover that may kill. Touching a power line is not
Access control: If the danger cannot be eliminated,
necessary for danger.
you should manage the risk by controlling access to,
 Voltages lower than 230 volts can kill and injure. and work beneath, overhead power lines.

 Do not mistake overhead power lines on wooden In some cases you may need to use a suitable
poles for telephone wires. combination of these measures, particularly where
overhead lines pass over permanent work areas.
 Electricity can bypass wood, plastic or rubber, if it is
The following precautions may also be needed
damp or dirty, and cause fatal shocks. Don't rely on
to manage the risk:
gloves or rubber boots to protect you.
Clearance – the safe clearance required beneath the
What you need to do
overhead lines should be followed.
Plan and manage work near electric overhead power
Exclusion – vehicles, plant, machinery, equipment, or
lines so that risks from accidental contact or close
materials that could reach beyond the safe clearance
proximity to the lines are adequately controlled.
distance should not be taken near the line;
Safety precautions will depend on the nature of the
Modifications – Vehicles such as cranes, excavators
work and will be essential even when work near the
should be modified by the addition of suitable physical
line is of short duration.
restraints so that they cannot reach beyond the safe
Safety can be achieved by a combination of clearance distances, measures should be put in place
measures: to ensure these restraints are effective and cannot be
altered or tampered with;
 Planning and preparation
Maintenance – operators of high machinery should be
The first step is to find out whether there is any
instructed not carry out any work on top of the
overhead power line within or immediately next to
machinery near overhead power lines;
the work area, or across any access route.
Supervision – access for plant and materials and the
If any overhead lines are found, you should
working of plant should be under the direct
assume that they are live unless proved otherwise
supervision of a suitable person appointed to ensure
by their owners.
that safety precautions are observed.
If there are any overhead lines over the work area,
near the site boundaries, or over access roads to the
work area, consult the owners of the lines so that the
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proposed plan of work can be discussed. Tel (03) : 8951120, 8641455, 8951396
You can eliminate the danger by: Fax: 8950427

Avoidance – find out if the work really has to be Dammam


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