“I’m called to teach,” Tallman Equipment trainer Doug Kirk said as he opened up his most recent class here at our Columbus, IN headquarters. “I used to think I was supposed to teach high school. I went to college for it, but when I got into my first student teaching...
Every connection a lineman makes carries risk. When something goes wrong, personal protective grounds are what stand between a close call and a serious injury. They create a controlled path for fault current, pulling dangerous energy away from the worker and safely...
In a world full of acronyms and initialisms like OSHA, ASTM, IEEE, and ANSI, it’s easy to get confused about what they all mean and when they matter. Take ASTM for example. At Tallman Equipment, we say we are an ASTM member, and we build our temporary protective...
At first blush, the ground sets and jumper sets used in the electrical utility industry appear nearly identical. They are pieces of insulated wire with a clamp on each end, and functionally, they both accomplish related goals as both grounds and jumpers create a...
PPG is equally as important today as it was a century ago, providing lineworkers with a critical safeguard against electrical hazards. Part 1 of this article began with discussion of the first American power systems, when lineworkers initially encountered the hazards...
Before safe and effective PPG methods emerged, pioneering lineworkers navigated their worksites with limited grounding knowledge, equipment and procedures. Personal protective grounding, or PPG, is arguably the most critical safety procedure affecting contemporary...
