Utility workers attend training

By Anonymous
Posted Nov 19, 2009 @ 08:09 PM
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Mike Coons and Shawn Clark, employees of Ralls County Electric Cooperative, New London, attended Overhead and Aerial Basket School at the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperative Training Center on Oct. 26-29 in Jefferson City. 
Training included instruction on safe work practices for direct hand contact rubber gloving of energized lines, the use of live line tools and proper insulated cover up materials for poles and conductors. Safe positioning of vehicles at the work site and the importance of pre-job conference was stressed.
Instructors from the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Jefferson City; Hubbell Power Systems, Inc., Centralia, and numerous rural electric cooperatives across Missouri provided the training and instruction to the 61 linemen attending the school.
AMEC is the service organization for the state’s 47 electric cooperatives which serves more than 560,000 rural Missourians.
 

Mike Coons and Shawn Clark, employees of Ralls County Electric Cooperative, New London, attended Overhead and Aerial Basket School at the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperative Training Center on Oct. 26-29 in Jefferson City. 
Training included instruction on safe work practices for direct hand contact rubber gloving of energized lines, the use of live line tools and proper insulated cover up materials for poles and conductors. Safe positioning of vehicles at the work site and the importance of pre-job conference was stressed.
Instructors from the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Jefferson City; Hubbell Power Systems, Inc., Centralia, and numerous rural electric cooperatives across Missouri provided the training and instruction to the 61 linemen attending the school.
AMEC is the service organization for the state’s 47 electric cooperatives which serves more than 560,000 rural Missourians.
 


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