Part 3: Acronyms,

Terms, and Numbers

Acronyms
AECC - Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
AECI - Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc.
AR - Arc rated
DA Bolt - double arming bolt
EME - electromagnetic energy
EPR - ethyl propylene rubber
FM - factory manual
FPE - fall protection equipment
GFCI - ground fault circuit interrupter
GTAW - gas tungsten arc welding
HMIS - hazardous material information system
HV - high voltage
JSA - job safety analysis
MAD - minimum approach distance
MSDS- material safety data sheet
OD - outside diameter
OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Act
PPE - personal protective equipment

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 Psig- pounds per square inch gauge
QLFT - qualitative fit test
QNFT - quantitative fit test
RF - radio frequency
SDS - safety data sheet
SRL - Self-retracting lifelines
TIG - tungsten inert gas
UL - underwriter laboratory
V - voltage
XLPE - cross-lined polyethylene

Common Terms
Approved: The correct tools, equipment, and ways of doing work decided
by the company
Authorized Person: Someone who is allowed to do certain work under
specific conditions
Barricade: Something that warns workers or blocks the way to a hazardous
area.
Company: AECC or AECI
De-energized: Equipment or conductors that are disconnected from all
sources of electricity using open switches, disconnectors, jumpers, taps, or
other means.
Dead: Equipment or wires that are a part of the electrical system that are
disconnected from any source of electricity and properly tagged, shorted,
and grounded.
Energized: Equipment or conductors that are connected to a source of
electrical charge or potential difference. Also known as hot, live, or alive.

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Grounded: The method of connecting an electrical conductor or a
conducive object to earth potential so as to provide an alternate path
through which electricity can travel.
Guarded: Covered, fenced, enclosed, or otherwise protected by means
of suitable covers or casings, barrier rails or screens, mats or platforms,
designed to limit the likelihood, under normal conditions, of dangerous
approach or accidental contact by persons or objects.
Insulated: Being separated from other conducting surfaces by a dielectric
medium (including air space) offering a high resistance to the passage of
current.
Isolated: Anything separated from a source of electricity. This can refer to
equipment or workers,
Minimum Clearing Distance: Safe working distances from overhead/
underground electrical conductors.
Rubber goods: Blankets, line hoses, insulator hoods, rubber gloves, rubber
sleeves, climber guards, overshoes, and any other rubber or rubber-like
material made for the protection of electrical workers.
Short: An electrical conductor in contact with another electrical conductor
at different potential or a ground.

Basic Number Rules

Spell out whole numbers up to ten.

• one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

• One foot, ten feet

When writing a number with one or more commas, spell out

• 1,000 - 1 thousand or one thousand

• 1,000,000 - 1 million

• 5,000 volts - 5kV

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