The longer the exposure, the greater the risk of serious injury.

Longer exposures at even relatively low voltage can be just as dangerous as short
exposures at higher voltage, low voltage does not imply low hazard.
In addition the muscle construction that cause "freezing" electrical shock also can
cause involuntary muscle reaction.
These reactions can result in a wide range of other injuries from collision or falls,
including bruises, bone fractures, and even death.

If a person is "frozen" to a live electrical contract short off the current immediately.
If this is not possible, use boards, poles, or sticks made of wood or any other no
conducting materials and safety push or pull the person away from the current.
It's important to act quickly, but remember to protect yourself as well from
electrocution or shock.

A servere shock can cause considerably more damage than meets the eye.
A victim may suffer internal hemorrhage and destruction of tissues, nerves, and
muscle that aren't readily visible.
Renal damage also can occur. If you or a coworker receives a shock seek emergency
medical help immediately. (occupational safety and health Administration John L.
Henshaw, Assistant Security 2002).

Electricity is widely recognized as a serious workspace hazard exposing employees to

electric shock burns fires and explosion. According to the Burieaus of labor statistics
250 employees were killed by contact with electric current in 2006. Other employees
were killed or injuries in fires and explosions caused by electricity. It is well known
that the human body will conduct electricity.

If direct body contact is made with a electrically energized part while a similar contact
is made simultaneously with another conductive surface that is maintained at a
different electrical potential, a current will flow, entering the body at one contact
point, usually the ground. Each year many employees suffer pain, injuries, and death
from such electric shocks. Current through the body even at levels as low as 3 mill
amperes, can also cause injuries of an indirect or secondary injuries in which
involuntary muscular reaction from the electric. Shock can cause bruises, bone
fractures and even death resulting from collision or falls.

Burns suffered in electrical accident can be very serious. These burns may be of three
basic types: electrical burns, arc burns, and thermal contact burns. Electrical burns are
the result of the electric current flowing in the tissues, and may be either skin deep or
may affect deeper layers (Sush as muscle and bones) or both.
Tissue damage is caused by the heat generated from the current flow, if the energy
delivered by the electric shock is high, the body cannot dissipate the heat, and the
tissue is burned. Typically, such electrical burns are slow to heal. Arc burns are the
result of high temperature produced by electric arc or by explosion close the body.
Finally thermal, thermal contact burns are those normally experienced from the skin
contacting hot surface of overheated electric conductors, conduits or other energized
equipment. In some circumstances, all three types of burns may be produced
simultaneously. If the current involved is great enough, electric arc can start a fire.
Fires can also be created by overheating equipment or by conductors carrying too
much current. Extremely high energy arcs can damage equipment, causing
fragmented metal to fly in all directions. In atmospheres that contain explosive gases
or vapors or combustible dust, even low energy arcs can cause violent explosion.

According to the U.S. Bureau of labor statistics, between 1992 and 2006 an average
of died per year from contact with electric current. This downward trend (See page
18) is due in major part to 30 years of highly protictive OSHA regulation in the area
of electrical installation based on the NEC and NFPA TOE standards. The final
standard carries forward most of the existing requirements for electrical installation,
with the new and revised requirements intended as fine tuning, introducing new
technology along with other improvements in safety. By complying with the final
standard employees will prevent unsafe electrical condition from occuring. While the
number of deaths and injuries associated with electrical hazards has declined contact
with electric current still poses a significant risk to employees in the workplace, as
evidenced by the numbers of deaths and serious injuries still occuring due to contact
with electric current. This final rule will help further reduce the number of deaths and
injuries associated with electrical hazards by providing additional requirements for
installation safety and by recognizing alternative means of compliance.

Each year many employees suffer electric shocks while using portable electric tools
and equipment. The nature of the injuries ranges from minor burms to electrocution.
Electric shocks produced by alternating currents (ac) at power line frequency passing
through the body of an average adult from hand to foot for 1 second can cause virous
effects, starting from a condition of being barely perceptible at 1 mill ampere to loss
of voluntary muscular control for currents from 9 to 25 mill amperes. The passage of
still higher currents, from 75 mill amperes to 4 amperes can produce ventricular
fibrillation of the heart and finally immediate cardiac arrest at over 4 amperes.
These injuries occur when employees contact electrically energized parts. Typically
the frame of a tool becomes accidentally energized because of an electrical fault
(known as a ground fault) that provides a conductive path to the tool casing. For
instance, with a grounded electric supply system, when the employee contacts the tool
casing, the fault current take a path through the employee to an electrically grounded
object. The amount of current that flows through an employee depends primarily upon
the resistance of the fault path within the tool the resistance of the path through the
employee's body and the resistance of the path both line side and ground side, from
the employee back to the electric power supply. Moisture in the atmosphere can
contribute to the electrical fault by enhancing both the conductive path within the tool
and the external ground path back to the electric power supply. Dry skin can have a
resistance range of anywhere from about 200 to 20,000 depending on several factors,
such as the physical characteristics and mass of the employee. More current will flow
if the employee is perspiring or becomes wet because of environmental conditions.
If the current is high enough the employee will suffer a ground-fault electroction.
People can never be tuo yuong to start learning to use Electricity safety. He makes an
estimation that 53,000 electrical fire accur in home each year. Most of these can be
avoided by talking simple safety precautions. Electricity is not powerful and versatile
energy but can be dangerous if it is not use properly. Most of the accident that accur
are due either to carelessness or to a lock a awareness of same basic rules that should
be observed when using electricity (Network,n,d). The use of electricity is something
taken for granted. but using it safety is very important. By understanding how
electricity work and where it is found, We can each do our part in preventing
electrical danger no matter where we are (Mackinnon,2010).Hazard can be defined as
any potential or actual threat to the wellbeing of people equipment, Machinery or
environment.Hazard can also be seen as something that can be identified as measurd
of potential source of danger such as naked electricity wires electricity gadgets which
are not switched off, unsafe acts, unprotected installation over load socket outle and
many likely accur the body become part of an electric circuit and there are three ways
or path that may lead to electric shock such as: A person may have contact with both
conductors in a circuit person may provide a way between an unground conductor
and the ground: A person may provide a way between the ground and a conducting
materials that is in contact with a ungrounded conductor.

Taylor, Easter and hegney (2004) observed that, the degree of shock an individual
may receive is dependent on several factors, including skin resistance. Skin resistance
is greatly reduced when the skin is wet or moist, and so the degree of shock will be
greater. Other factors include the amount of current that is conduted through the body;
the path of the current through the body,the duration of time a person is subject to the
current and status of the heart or the breathing muscle,or,both,burns, bleeding
neurological damage and r moist, and so the degree of shock will be greater. Other
factors include the amount of current that is conduted through the body; the path of
the current through the body,the duration of time a person is subject to the current and
status of the heart or the breathing muscle,or,both,burns, bleeding neurological
damage and ventricular fibrillation. of shock will be greater. Other factors include the
amount of current that is conduted through the body; the path of the current through
the body,the duration of time a person is subject to the current and status of the heart
or the breathing muscle,or,both,burns, bleeding neurological damage and ventricular
fibrillation. Electricity always follows the shortest circuit path