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This study aims to explore the factors influencing electrical accidents. Here, the authors aim to understand and model the causes of electrical accidents at multiple levels.

In the study, the authors have tried to put causes of accidents in the electricity distribution segment, in the framework of the Swiss Cheese model. Delphi kind of expert survey was conducted to find the Cheese Slice (level) and the causes (holes) for electrical accidents. Inputs from a hundred experts having more than five years of experience in electrical utility companies have been used to find Cheese Slice and holes, to explain the occurrence of an electrical accident.

Effective training for safe work practices, safe knowledge and closer supervision would go a long way to plug the holes in the Cheese Slice in human factors. The difference in perception of managers, supervisors and workers on the importance of various causes of electrical accidents are also presented and discussed.

This research is based on expert opinion and survey where respondent perception is reported. Actual accident data has not been used here.

The holes or causes of accidents at different levels (Cheese Slice) have been identified for plugging or removal for better safety.

Electrical energy is widely used, and therefore, electrical safety is a social concern and also improving it is a social need.

The study contributes to electrical safety issues in the electrical utility sector.

Describes training for the CSCS electrical certification scheme health and safety test carried out by UK contractor Grimwood and Dix.

Explains the background to the training, the way in which it is organized and the benefits it has brought.

Reveals that the training has helped to reduce minor accidents at the firm by around 40 percent, improved employee retention and enhanced the company's reputation for professionalism.

Details the significant savings made by carrying out the training in‐house.

Highlights how the UK construction industry in general is placing more emphasis on health and safety and operative competence.

Reveals that Grimwood and Dix has been approved as a test center by the test's awarding body, and so is able to train operatives from other companies.

Knight's Industrial Law Reports goes into a new style and format as Managerial Law This issue of KILR is restyled Managerial Law and it now appears on a continuous updating basis rather than as a monthly routine affair.

An overview of the analysis which should be undertaken with regard to safety where robotic systems are used. Looks at accidents associated with these systems and the legislation covering their operation in the workplace. Outlines general guidelines for robotic system design, implementation and maintenance and the various factors which should be considered with regard to safety. Describes a proposed International Electrotechnical Commission [IEC] standard for safety‐related systems and concludes that if a systematic approach is taken concerning safety from inial design through to installation operation and maintenance, then accidents can be minimized.

Relates how partnering between public and private participants can transform the process of obtaining construction permits and ensuring building code compliance into a co‐operative pursuit of common objectives. States use of partnering techniques between the Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits (DILP) of Howard County, Maryland, and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), a large research facility in Howard County. Argues that experience in designing and setting up a partnering process for building code compliance may be of interest to anyone with a large campus and a need to reconfigure and renovate space regularly; as well as to local officials responsible for monitoring building code compliance for such facilities: for example, large corporate and manufacturing facilities, hospitals, or college and university campuses.

The purpose of this paper is to study the environmental indicators of an ISO 14001:2004 certified thermal power plant located at Raiwind road Lahore.

The research study included employee interviews, noise monitoring, effluent and ground water sampling, stack emission testing, and assessment of the solid waste management system.

Semi-structured interviews randomly conducted with employees showed a 57 percent environmental awareness response. The stack emission results showed that the nitrogen oxide (NOx) from engine no. 5 and 7 was 2,447 and 2,624 mg/Nm³, respectively, higher than the World Bank limit of 2,300 mg/Nm³ as well as exceeding the 600 mg/Nm³ set by the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) with no emission control technology in place. The ground water and effluent samples were found unfit for irrigation purposes. Electrical conductivity exceeded the permissible level of Directorate of Land Reclamation (DLR) irrigation water quality criteria of 1.5 dS/m. Similarly, the sodium absorption ratio (SAR) exceeded 10 mmolc/l. Residual sodium carbonate was more than the DLR permissible level of 2.5 me/l. The noise level in the engine hall was 103 dB(A) which is beyond the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s permissible exposure limit of 90 dB(A) and the NEQS for industrial area at day time, i.e. 75 dB(A).

The research analysis shows that environmental survey may serve as an example for other power plants to review their environmental policy and be more vigilant as an environmentally conscious organization.

This paper underscores an easy understanding and evaluation of environmental indicators that are minor but neglected in a thermal power plant. The sampling, testing, and employee awareness are crucial to gauge the level of an organization’s conformity with the international quality, occupational health, and environmental standards.

Everyone knows that question And what do you do?, so useful in a casual meeting after other topics have proved unpromising. In my case, when I say that I work at the British Standards Institution I have often observed in my questioner a half‐guilty recollection that he or she may have seen a British Standard or Kitemark somewhere. But just where, exactly? Look next into the corner of your car windscreen, or the letters and number inside the ‘stars’ at the petrol pump. Do you use a bank credit card? Surely recently you have unplugged an electrical appliance or replaced a lamp? All these are made to a standard specification for size, composition or quality. You are in fact reading from a printed page of A4 paper — an international standard size. A standardized range of sizes leads to direct economies because it reduces unnecessary variety. In the case of paper sizes the production of a rational range of envelopes, files and reprographic machines follows from the initial internationally‐accepted standard sizes for sheets of paper.

Learning physics at school is likely to be a much more exciting process than it used to be. Not only are syllabuses becoming more appropriate to the atomic age, but apparatus is now available for repeating, easily, many of the classical experiments that helped the growth of atomic concepts during the first half of this century. For example, in 1909, R. A. Millikan began a series of experiments that showed electricity to be particulate, i.e. that an electrical charge is composed of an integral number of small, equal basic charges. He was able to obtain a value for this, which is the charge carried by an electron.