{"id":2693,"date":"2012-08-30T23:58:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T23:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2012-08-30T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T23:58:31","slug":"dangerous-voltages-out-in-the-open-contact-voltage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/2012\/08\/30\/dangerous-voltages-out-in-the-open-contact-voltage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Voltages out in the Open (Contact Voltage)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">There is a danger that is out in the open (on our sidewalks, at playgrounds, the little league baseball park, etc.) and most people don&#8217;t even know what it is. \u00a0<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Including myself til a little while ago when I read a post, on 30 Aug 2012, at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.certassist.ca\/certassist\/Blog\/Blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CertAssist Blog<\/a>\u00a0which is a Product Safety Blog. \u00a0This is not my typical post but I thought it is important enough to pass on to help more people to become aware of this danger. \u00a0The issue about <\/span><a style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.certassist.ca\/certassist\/Blog\/Entries\/2012\/8\/30_Contact_Voltage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Voltage<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"> is a great example of why proper insulation, grounding, and preventative maintenance are extremely important in design of electrical devices including street lights, traffic lights, medical devices and any electrically conductive metal that may be close to electrical power or has electrical power running thru it, or near it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Thank you\u00a0Cherie Forbes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certassist.ca\/certassist\/Blog\/Blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CertAssist<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certassist.ca\/certassist\/Blog\/Entries\/2012\/8\/30_Contact_Voltage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog post.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a danger that is out in the open (on our sidewalks, at playgrounds, the little league baseball park, etc.) and most people don&#8217;t even know what it is. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[668,669,670,671,672,673,117,674,675,676,677,678,149,679,680,681,574,682,683,684,685,686],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conductive-metal","tag-contact-voltage","tag-dangerous-voltages","tag-electric-shock","tag-electrical-device","tag-electrical-power","tag-electrical-safety","tag-ground","tag-grounding","tag-hazard","tag-hazards","tag-insulation","tag-medical-devices","tag-p-m","tag-playgrounds","tag-preventative-maintenance","tag-product-safety","tag-proper-insulation","tag-protective-earth","tag-shock","tag-sidewalks","tag-traffic-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}