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OSHA Partners with Electrical Workers and Trade Associations to bring about a Safer Workplace

OSHA has recently partnered with a number of electrical workers programs and other trade associations to help reduce illnesses, injuries and deaths amongst the electrical transmission and distribution industry workers. The partnersh ip aims to identify and establish what the main causes of i n juri e s and illnesses are in this industry and preventive mea sures and best practices a re t o be thought out to reduce such incidents. The main aim of OSHA is to ensure that workers should be trained to identify and come up with ways to prevent calamities from taking place. And more importantly, workers should be trained to respond if and when an e mergency occurs. Emergency response is very important to workers, especially if they work in industries that regularly or occasionally expose them to hazards. Workers in the electrical transmissions line of business are frequently exposed to a variety of electrical hazards that range from electric shocks to burns and even instant death. Every year...