Standard Operating Procedure for Workers Working With Energized Equipment

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     Standard Operating Procedure for Workers Working With Energized Equipment

     OSHA Purpose:

                   Under the Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was enacted in the department of labor to;

     • Encourage workers and employers to minimize workplace hazard and to improve the existing health and safety programs.
     • Provide for research in occupational health and safety to design innovative ways of addressing occupational health and safety challenges.
     • Create distinct but dependent rights and responsibilities for workers and employers for the attainment of better health and safety conditions.
     • Maintain a record keeping and reporting system to check over job related illness and injuries.
     • Organize a training programs to enhance the competence and number of occupational safety and health personnel.
     • Design compulsory job health and safety standards and enact them successfully and offer for the development, assessment, evaluation and approval of state health programs and occupational safety.

     Although OSHA repeatedly assess and redefines specific practices and standards, its core purpose remains the same. It seeks to enact its mandate comprehensively and strongly without any impartiality to all the concerned individuals. In all its procedures, starting from development through adoption and enactment, OSHA assures workers and employees the right to have full information, actively take part and appeal to actions (Smith, Karsh, Carayon, & Conway, 2003).

     The following are standard operating procedures for our employees who will be working with energized equipment.

     • Only qualified workers are authorized to work on or with exposed energized lines or rather parts of the equipment. This will reduce the cases of accidents and deaths that are likely to occur due to ignorance or lack of necessary skills and knowledge regarding the equipment.
     • Only qualified workers will be authorized to work in areas that contain uninsulated and unguarded energized lines or parts of devices that operate at least 50V.
     • All employees will be required to treat electric equipment and lines as energized unless they have been dienergized in line with the OSHA standards.
     • The employer will ensure that no worker approaches or comes near any conductive object nearer exposed energized parts than the minimum approach distance set by the employer unless the worker is insulated from the energized part.

     Working Position

     Regarding the working from below, the employee must make sure that each worker to the degree that other safety related conditions within the workplace allow, works in a position from which a shock or a slip will not make the body of the employee to come into contact with exposed, uninsulated parts energized ().

     When an employee is working near exposed parts energized at over 600V and is not putting on rubber insulating gloves, the worker will work from a position where she or he cannot come near the least approach distance established by the employer.

     Making Connections

     • The employer must ensure that when workers are connecting dienergized equipment or lines to an energized circuit using a conducting wire, the worker must first fix the wire to the dienergized part. Secondly, when disconnecting lines or equipment from an energized circuit using a conducting wire, the worker must first remove the source end before anything else.
     • When equipment or lines are disconnected or connected from energized circuits, the worker will be required to keep lose conductors far from exposed energized parts.

     Protection from Electric Arcs and Flames

           The employer is required to review the workplace to establish various workers who are exposed to electric arcs or flames. Secondly, for each worker exposed to hazards from flames or electric arcs, the employer will be required to make a logical estimate of the incident heat energy to which the worker would be exposed (Reese, & Eidson, 1999).

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Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” Movie Analysis

            While delivering a speech, persuasion is essential in convincing the audience to listen to their ideas in their address. In An Inconvenient Truth, former US Vice President Al – Gore speaks on global warming as an encroaching crisis affecting its atmosphere and the environment as his central message. Al- Gore effectively persuades the audience into joining his cause against global warming by using persuasive communication strategies, a solid introduction, rhetoric strategies, oral citations, proper speech delivery, and presentation aids to evoke the audience in supporting his cause.

            Al- Gore’s successfully incorporates a solid speech introduction to attract the audience’s attention. He begins the introduction with a joke alluding to him being the “former future president of the United States.” The use of such a satirical comment evokes the audience wondering who would be bold enough to stand on stage after losing a race, such as the presidential election. This captures the audience to be more involving in his speech and sit for a better listening into the matters at hand. Later on, he introduces his speech topic by focusing on his central message, outlining his whole address's main points. Finally, it eases the audience by showing a mangrove parchment indicated to involve the audience in relating to a preserved environment before expounding on his speech. The audience is engaged after this as he gets into his central message and further engaging in his speech.

Al-Gore's excellently persuades the audience by using ethos as a rhetorical strategy throughout the speech.  Ethos employs a sense of trustworthiness and competence that enables the audience to believe in the speaker's credibility. He shows ethos by acknowledging his commitment to the earth as an environmental activist. Al- Gore's speech is based on expansive research that helps the audience trust his competence in speaking on the issue. Al- Gore's possesses charisma and positive energy that attracts the audience to remain rooted in listening to his appeal towards addressing global warming. As characteristics of applying ethos in a speech, the combination of dynamism and competence draws the crowd to become trustworthy with his presentation and remains attentive throughout the address.

Al- Gore’s effectively employs persuasive communication strategies that include positive motivation, negative motivation, cognitive dissonance, non-verbal communication, and appeals to self-esteem in his speech. Positive and negative motivations are essential in persuading the audience to venture into addressing global warming to achieve positive outcomes in the environment. Consequently, Al-Gore uses negative motivation to convince the audience that failure to look into measures of curbing global warming and climate change, the earth might end up like the few places he depicts in his comparison photographs and videos. Cognitive dissonance helps change one's perspective to something by discomforting norms and beliefs to persuade an audience towards change. At the start of the documentary, Al-Gore introduces a short video of a beautiful mangrove parchment that would stay in the back of the audience's mind on what should be safeguarded.  To destabilize the audience, he shows pictorials of areas devastated by global warming, evoking fear and panic for the world that has become dormant in addressing this issue. Intertwined, with his central idea, Al- Gore persuades the audience in a bleak and disheartened tone to fight for preserving the environment.

            In addition, Al-Gore’s effectually uses non-verbal communication in his body language is established through a dejected worrying tone for identifying with the audience on the prevailing situation. Al- Gore’s body movement showed confidence in his walk and constant interactiveness with the audience. Al – Gore also has a confiden, genuine smile appearing as a well- groomed and dressed man in delivering his speech. In the documentary, Al-Gore's clear expression of displeasure with people who negated around global warming instead of addressing is clear.  Al-Gore aimed to show concern for the issue. Al –Gore's self-esteem pushes his central message across the audience by focusing on positivity and the audience's contributions to curb global warming. His articulation of each point across helps in building confidence with the audience. His confidence in his speech persuades the audience to be on board the matter.

            Oral citations are well used in An Inconvenient Truth to capture the audience's attention. Al- Gore uses oral citations effectively to show reliability, credibility, and validity of information conveyed in his speech address. Denoting empirical evidence from videos, charts, and maps allude the audience into believing that Al- Gore critically researched the issue and came up with a profound speech to convince the audience to join his cause to remove fallacies on wrong information presented in his speech. Virtually, his research pays off as he captures the audience in his factual interactions on the matter.

Al – Gore excellently uses presentation aids like projected images, comparison photographs, short videos, satirical cartoons, and info graphs like maps and charts to help persuade his audience to come to his plea in preserving the environment by combating global warming. Projected images show areas adversely affected by global warming, including flooded areas. The short videos as well show people injured due to flooding. The graphs and maps show empirical evidence of the effects of global warming in areas. A comparison of videos and pictures shows how some places were before global warming and its impact after years. All these visual aids serve as areas involving the audience's concern and worry over the deteriorating ecosystem around us. Al-Gore was not shy off, including videos of politicians passing over the global warming issue through satirical cartoons while also poking at renowned scientists worldwide who showed the existence of climate change. As much as Al-Gore is a politician, he intended for the audience to understand that his concern was for the environment and endeavors towards combating global warming rather than politically-driven shows with aspirations of a political seat.

Lastly, Al- Gore successfully uses ethos, pathos, and logos strategies to capture the audience's attention in his speech. Ethos employs a sense of trustworthiness and competence that enables the audience to believe in the speaker's credibility. He shows ethos by acknowledging his commitment to the earth as an environmental activist. The documentary shows the incorporation of logos through his presentation of scientific facts that support his claims to global warming as an issue of concern. Lastly, his attributes to incorporate his son's demise into comparing it to his commitment to the environment show pathos as a rhetoric strategy.  Successful integration of photographs and videos of areas affected by global warming helped provoke the audience to support his cause towards alleviating global warming.

In conclusion, Al – Gore effectively incorporates persuasive communication strategies, a solid introduction, rhetoric strategies, oral citations, proper speech delivery, and presentation aids to evoke the audience in supporting his fight against global warming.  Using all these techniques successfully convinces the audience to have a concern about the deteriorating ecosystem. Having watched the documentary, I am persuaded to carry on the legacy of conserving our environment as an environmental ambassador.         

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