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 Prevention
of electrical accidents is mainly technical. In fact, conductors must be
insulated and protected and effective grounding systems must be prepared
so that the current is discharged onto the ground before it reaches the
human body.
The Italian law (547/1955 and 1968) establishes the principle that all
appliances, machinery and electrical systems should be duly realized and
built. The technical prevention of microshock accidents requires, in
addition to the enforcement of the general plant engineering regulations,
a careful inspection of all the electrical connections of the equipment. The
medical prevention is based, on the one hand, on the training of workers
about the measures to be adopted immediately after an electrical accident
(such as first aid and resuscitation) and, on the other hand, on the
preventive investigations to select the personnel to be assigned to a job
in the electrical sector.
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