The following list of citations for electrical hazards is real. These citations happened recently and they will be eye-opening for some. I wrote this with the hope that it might help facility personnel better evaluate their facilities. If OSHA is looking for these kinds of hazards, you should be looking for them also, well ahead of an OSHA visit. Finding these kinds of hazards will help prevent injuries and at the same time avoid a costly OSHA citation. I thought the best way to show you what to look for in your own facility was to share with you, in OSHA’s own words, actual violations written up by OSHA field personnel. You don’t have to have a vast knowledge of electrical equipment to recognize these hazards.
1910.132(d)(2) The employer did not verify that the required workplace personal protective equipment hazard assessment was performed through a written certification that identified the workplace being evaluated; the person certifying the evaluation had been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and which identified the document as a certification of hazard assessment.