A little background first.
I am a master licensed electrician who works for a large county jail in Texas. There are 15 maint guys with one licensed electrician and one licensed HVAC man.
My old boss was an engineer and pretty much left me alone as long as I fixed what was broke.
We got a new boss, he is a sergeant in the corrections dept. In other words he is a guard supervisor. This is actually good as he has more experince supervising than the engineer did.
Now to the subject.
The new boss wants me to write up a procedure for resetting main circuit breakers in the buildings if they trip. The reason he stated was so he can give it to the guards in each building so that if something trips in the middle of the night they can turn it back on.
I do not know what OSHA rules are, but I consider myself a "qualified person" and have had training in stepping down and stepping up and have been involved in power ups and shut downs of large buildings in the past.
My fear is that he wants "unqualified persons" with no background in electric work to go around and close 3,000 amp breakers using the procedure that I will write.
Can anyone point to an OSHA rule regarding throwing large breakers and or discos? Does the person even need to be "qualified"?
My feelings are real simple, if the main breaker blows you need to find out WHY before you start turning things on. Thats what they pay me for.
Many thanks for any advice.
