APM STEP 1 Flashcards
What are the rules for accessing BPA energized facilities?
- Have a permit issues IAW the Rules of Conduct Handbook.
2. Be escorted by a person with a permit or a qualified utility worker with authorization to enter BPA facilities.
What are the footwear requirements?
Lace up, over the ankle leather boots meeting ASTM F 2413-11 with an EH rating or ASTM F 2413-05, Class 75 with an EH rating.
Where must safety boots be worn?
In areas where a hardhat is required or in other areas as determined by a supervisor.
What is the minimum rating for arc rated clothing?
8 calories/cm*2
When must arc rated clothing be worn?
When inside energized substation yards or when performing work that may expose you to an arc hazard.
What materials are prohibited in clothing?
Acetate, nylon, polyester and rayon, alone or in blends. Unless, labelled with an Arc Protection Thermal Value of 8 cal/cm*2.
How must you wear long sleeve, arc rated shirts?
With sleeves rolled down and tucked into pants.
Where can you find more info on arc flash PPE?
BPA Work Standard, BPA-WS-11-6, Shock and Arc FlasH Assessment & PPE.
What is used to prevent contact with energized parts?
Barriers
Line insulator covers and similar devices allow?
Work within the MAD.
How do you install line insulator covers and similar protective devices?
Under the protection of a Clearance or with hot-line tools.
What is used to maintain Minimum Approach Distances or MAD’s?
Guards
Who can install electrical guards?
Qualified Electrical Workers (Yellow Hats)
What do you do when you see a red/white rope?
DO NOT ENTER THE AREA! All persons prohibited from entering.
Who can install and remove a red/white rope?
Can be installed or removed under the direction of the Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW) in charge of the job.
Who can install or remove a yellow/black rope?
Can be installed under the supervision of a QEW. Can be removed by anyone with the permission of the QEW in charge of the job.
What else can red/white and yellow/black ropes be used for?
Nothing. They are the only colors allowed to be used for electrical guards and must only be used for that purpose.
Environmentally contaminated areas shall?
Be guarded and identified by signs and may be entered by persons trained to protect themselves from the hazards present.
Approved eye protection shall be worn when?
Whenever there is a danger of injury from electrical arcs or flying objects resulting from accidental electrical contact while working on energized electrical circuits or equipment.
Where is the info for minimum compliance eye protection?
Accident Prevention Manual Section E-3
What locations must hard hats be worn?
- In fenced substation yards or other hard hat designated areas.
- When engaged in or when in the close proximity of outdoor work or in all areas where there is exposure above head level to moving equipment, work, or material handling.
- Persons working at elevated locations more than 4 feet above the ground and utilizing fall protection PPE shall wear a BPA approved climbing style helmet attached with chin strap.
- When working on equipment requiring Arc Flash PPE. Wearing an arc rated hood with an integral helmet is acceptable.
When can hard hats be removed?
Hardhats may be removed for work inside
transformers, reactors, power circuit breakers, under vehicles, or in similarly restricted/protected situations where there is no possibility of injury from falling objects.
Yellow hard hats?
Qualified Electrical Workers holding an Electrical Worker Permit.
Blue hard hats?
Riggers.
Red hard hats?
Construction Equipment Operators
Gray hard hats?
Carpenters.
White hard hats?
Bitch ass apprentices and all others.
The ________ shall conduct job briefings with all workers associated with the job.
person-in-charge
When more than one _____ are working together, the ________ must be clearly established as part of the job briefing.
craft, person-in-charge of the job
All job briefings must cover at least the following subjects:
- Hazards associated with the job
- Work procedures
- Special precautions
- Energy source controls
- PPE
- Clearances, Work Permits and Hold Orders
Work shall be suspended and personnel shall seek a safe haven during times that local or close-in lightning is within _________ and remain in the clear for _____ after the last flash of lightning is seen or thunder is heard.
sight or sound, thirty minutes
What reference is used when working near lightning?
BPA Work Standard BPA-WS-11-12, Working Near Lighting
No part of a worker’s body or any conductive object held by a worker shall be moved closer to energized or ungrounded circuit parts than the _________.
Minimum Approach Distance (MAD)
When work is to be performed within the Minimum Approach Distance, including the installation and removal of barriers, one of the following must be employed:
- Use approved barriers IAW Rule B-1.
- Use of live-line tools.
- Clearance with all conducting parts shorted and bonded together and to a common ground IAW Rule G-1
- Approved bare-hand work procedures contained in the Bare Hand Manual.
- Lockout/Tagout IAW Rule L-3.
