Here's a good one....

I just read on the website for The Workplace Safety Awareness Council that the August 2007 Revision on the 29CFR1910.301-.399 requires arc flash hazard boundaries, equipment labeling and PPE. Can anyone confrim this? I am trying to find a place to purchase the standard, but so far I can't find a place to do that. The above mentioned website is linked below.


http://www.wpsac.org

That would be an earth shaker. If you find this, please post it here.
Thanks!

You were misinformed (Too bad ti should be) the Aug revision adopted the installation section of the 70E, not the safe work practices, that is coming soon, I heard Feb 2008 but we are way past that already.

You can get PDF's of specific CFR sections via this website:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/retrieve.html

Also, here is a link to the 2005 Federal Register where OSHA proposed changes to it's utility standard 1910.269 to add arc flash requirements:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2005_register&position=all&page=34866

To my knowledge, these changes have not been adopted into 1910.269. I bet they are still being litigated.

It seems 1EEE 1584 provides guidance in cutting off calculations at 2.0 seconds of arc exposure. I provide training as such and caution the workers that for certain job tasks/approaches this assumed time constraint may not be valid.