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Telecommunications workers are involved in the installation, operation, maintenance, or removal of equipment, or trimming trees with exposure to overhead power lines. These tasks put the workers near energized electrical parts. Therefore, they must be aware of the electrical hazards they are exposed to, and they must know how to avoid them.
OSHA’s telecommunication requirements set forth safety and health standards that apply to the work conditions, practices, means, methods, operations, installations and processes performed at telecommunications centers and at telecommunications field installations, which are located outdoors or in building spaces used for such field installations. Center work includes the installation, operation, maintenance, rearrangement, and removal of communications equipment and other associated equipment in telecommunications switching centers. Field work includes the installation, operation, maintenance, rearrangement, and removal of conductors and other equipment used for signal or communication service, and of their supporting or containing structures, overhead or underground, on public or private rights of way, including buildings or other structures.
These standards do not apply to:
Employers covered by 1910.268 must: