wearing rubber gloves to change out transformer

[lewy]

We are a ground to ground utility as is most of the province. The only ones who are not are the Hydro One boys they have a 4 foot rule or something close to that. For us we have to wear gloves rated for the voltage to be worked on & as we cannot work on anything above 5 kv that's means class 2 when climbing. The only time we have to wear a higher class glove in the air is when we are hands on a higher voltage. If we are doing live line tool work & we are outside our restricted zone we can wear leathers. Back to our ground to ground rule, once we get to the work position & the area is made safe we can remove our rubbers when performing tasks deemed to difficult, with permission from the person in charge, but before we move from that work position we must put our rubbers back on. What I find strange is someone wearing rubber gloves when everything on the pole is grounded & they say they are just following the ground to ground rule as we don't need rubbers once everything is grounded.

[Capt Bly]

Your last line"every thing is grounded" ,is the secondary addressed? If not think about this,number one killer of lineman BACK FEED

[lewy]

Your last line"every thing is grounded" ,is the secondary addressed? If not think about this,number one killer of lineman BACK FEED

Once everything is grounded