PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-685
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 685
DECEMBER 2009
43
PS 685
DEC 09
I recommend you have, in addition to the above requirements and
recommendations, copies of FM 21-11,
First Aid for Soldiers,
and a portable
de±brillator (to be used only by trained personnel).
You can add other things to your electrical safety board or electrical safety
stations. Just remember that these are intended for electrical safety and not
general safety. Resist the urge to clutter the board or the stations with general
safety items. There is a place for these, but the place is not “in the way” when you
have an electrical emergency.
Of course, all the safety equipment in the world is useless if your Soldiers are
not trained on how and when to use it and how to de-energize the source of power.
With the help of your local safety of±ce, schedule onsite classes for your Soldiers
that make doing the right thing and using the right
equipment their ±rst reaction to an electrical emergency.
Here’s what TB 385-4
recommends
you have
in addition to the above requirements:
Next, consider having a prominent electrical safety board for display and training
purposes, but have satellite areas that contain the equipment to be used in an actual
emergency. Use paint to highlight those areas and to draw the eye to them.
What should be on your board and at your satellite locations?
Here’s what TB 385-4
requires
you to have in addition to your grounding stick
and safety hook:
Heavy copper wire,
3
/
16
” dia.
another item
you can make
following the
instructions
in tm 385-4
is a grounding
stick.
here’s the
info from
page 3-9…
•
General purpose frst aid kit, NSN 6545-
00-922-1200, or equivalent. (Make sure this
kit is regularly inventoried and that people
who might be required to use it are trained
in accordance with DA Pam 40-11.)
•
Flashlight,
NSN 6230-
00-264-8261,
or a suitable
substitute.
•
Emergency
procedures
and telephone
numbers—
ambulance,
hospital,
doctor, etc.
•
3
/8-in rope, 25-±t, NSN 4020-00-174-3031.
(Or, we like rope, NSN 4020-00-599-7529.
It’s thinner, cheaper and orange.)
•
Rubber gloves, 3000 volts, sizes 9-12,
NSN 8415-01-158-9449/50/51/52
•
Grounding cable
±rom previous page
•
Resuscitator
Flatten 3” ±or drilling
and mounting
Dry hardwood stick.
Coat with clear shellac
Flexible bare wire, 6 gauge
or larger or heavy wire braid
Ground clamp
Connect ground clamp to
ground be±ore using probe
Remove grounding stick
be±ore turning on power
GROUNDING STICK
24”
12”
1”
1”
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10/26/09
3:16:35 PM
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