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    Linemen stay safe in the field by adhering to OSHA regulations, participating in field training programs, and wearing required fall protection and personal protective equipment.

    Highlights

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    Jan. 24, 2025
    This audio story is narrated from the second feature article in the December 2024 print issue about the International Lineman's Rodeo Week.
    Amy Fischbach
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    Oct. 18, 2024
    For Part 1 on our series about the International Lineman's Rodeo Week, we are kicking it off with voices from the safety and training conference.
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    Sept. 6, 2023
    Derek Sang of Bulwark FR shares strategies for lineworkers to get maximum protection from FR clothing through proper selection, care, maintenance and use.
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    Sept. 14, 2022
    It is still chilling to realize that a person died every 111 minutes in 2020 from a work-related injury.
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    Nov. 18, 2021
    Dr. Rich Gasaway, who spoke at the safety conference two years ago, is presenting his Situational Awareness Matters show.
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    Jan. 16, 2024
    The renewal includes more than a dozen companies, labor organizations and trade associations.
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    Nov. 20, 2023
    The company has a unified strategy to develop an expanded, diverse talent pipeline.
    PG&E Corp.
    Nov. 20, 2023
    The ‘hybrid approach’ will fund about 60% of the utility’s undergrounding requests and shift more work to covered conductors.
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    PG&E team members working recently at an undergrounding project in Vacaville, northeast of Oakland
    Oct. 27, 2023
    The utility’s leaders say regulators’ proposed general rate case decisions come up short in funding wildfire risk mitigation and other resiliency plans.