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Working at height, isolation, arc flash and the procedural habits that stop routine jobs going wrong.
SafetyWorking at Height as an ElectricianThe one trade where the ladder itself can kill you, and the material it is made of is not a preference.2026-07-30
SafetyProving Dead: The Step People SkipIsolate, lock, prove, prove the prover. Four steps, and the fourth is the one that gets left out.2026-07-16
SafetyArc Flash: The Risk Nobody Costs InRare, survivable and life-changing. The mitigation is mostly procedural, which is why it gets treated as optional.2026-06-28The pattern in the incident reports
Read enough of them and the same shape recurs: an experienced person, a familiar task, and one step of a four-step procedure left out because the first three had never failed. Almost nothing in this section is technically difficult. It is all about whether the habit holds on the afternoon nobody is watching.