Gerald,
thank you for the link. $30 or so is something any sparky can cough up, and a small $ to pay for such education. My check's in the mail.
Most of the trade out here in the sticks are one/two man shows, mom & pop biz , got my kid as an apprentice deals. This is despite some of the glorified ad's and answering services that present us as world leaders in the trade.
My point is that there is a trickle down effect that leaves a lot of us either out of the loop , or easily able to ignore what the rest of the world is doing.
Many of us , unable to bid on big jobs, say when a shopping mall is being built, have a "can't beat'em , join 'em" policy. To be honest, the larger jobs like that are the only time we are exposed to any level of saftey in practice. My last experience was with an IBEW "salt" or "stewart", i'm not sure what his title was. He worked right along with us, and tried to apply current saftey standards as we went along. One has to imagine here, field electricians with 20-30 yrs experience being exposed to these standards, to an applicable degree, for the first time. If anything else, he was patient.
