Electrical Safety in Industrial Plants

 

Although the physiological effects of accidental shock range from mild sensation to electrocution, oddly enough the greatest threat to man’s life comes not from higher but lower amperage values.

 

Most electrical engineers and electricians are aware that the principal danger from electricity is that of electrocution, but few really understand just how minute a quantity of electric energy is required for electrocution. Actually, the current drawn by a 7 1⁄2-watt 120-volt lamp, passed from hand to hand or foot, is enough to cause fatal electrocution. Just as it is current, and not voltage, that heats a wire, it is current that causes physiological damage. This article gives some indication of what this damage consists of, with specific application to the problems of industrial plants.

 

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