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Electrical Injuries

Electrical Injuries. Electrical burns are nearly always worse than they appear. Why? What are ways that people obtain electrical burns?. Electrical Injuries. Human factors: Males, especially young males Male to female ratio is 17:1 - highest for all forms of accidental death Reasons??.

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Electrical Injuries

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  1. Electrical Injuries • Electrical burns are nearly always worse than they appear. Why? • What are ways that people obtain electrical burns?

  2. Electrical Injuries • Human factors: • Males, especially young males • Male to female ratio is 17:1 - highest for all forms of accidental death • Reasons??

  3. Factors influencing the effects of electricity on the human body • Type of current - AC Vs. DC • Value or intensity of current • Voltage or force of current • Resistance of the body • Pathway of the current • Duration of contact

  4. Prevention of electrical injuries • Do’s and Don’ts of electrical safety • House should be checked to insure that they are wired correctly. • What are some signals that there may be a problem with inadequate wiring? • How are electrical cords misused?

  5. Prevention of electrical injuries • What are some safety principles regarding the use of electrical appliances? • Precautions for outdoors?

  6. Lightning • Responsible for more deaths annually than any other type of stormy weather phenomena. • 80% of deaths and injuries are to males • Injuries - burns and tissue destruction • Deaths - loss of respiration; ventricular fibrillation

  7. Injury Prevention for lightning • Protect yourself when thunderstorms threaten: • Get inside home or vehicle • Avoid using telephone unless in an emergency. • Showers?

  8. Injury Prevention for lightning • If you are outside, what are some safety measures? • Do not stand under a natural lightning rod such as a tall tree in an open, isolated area.

  9. Outdoor lightning precautions (2) • Avoid projecting from the surrounding landscape, e.g. open field, hilltop, on the beach. • Get out of and away from open water. • Get away from tractors and other metal farm equipment.

  10. Outdoor lightning precautions (3) • Get off and away from motorcycles, scooters, golf cart, and bicycles. Put down the golf clubs -- even the “1” iron! • Stay away from metal pathways which could carry the electricity to you, e.g. wire fences, clotheslines, metal pipes.

  11. More lightning precautions • In a wooded area seek shelter in a low area under a thick growth of small trees. • In open areas, seek a low place such as a ravine or valley. • If stuck in an open area and you feel your hair stand on end, drop to your knees and crouch very low. Do not lie flat on the ground.

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