The toolbox talk nobody checked

Anyone running crews near power lines knows this. The briefing is the old toolbox talk, because it's there. Nobody checks its clearances against what the utility requires for this line. If they're off, the whole crew learns the wrong number, and learns it well.

One case on our Try page: a sidewalk crew near power lines. Yesper wrote the training and a quiz that traces every answer to it, then read the crew's results. 8 of 14 got the overhead line clearance wrong, 7 of them with the figure from the old toolbox talk, written for lower voltages.

The wrong number shows up in the quiz, not at the line. You know what to cover at the next huddle and who needs it most. Same for the rest of the Try page: a work plan for a culvert, a job hazard analysis for a CO2 refrigeration install.

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