OSHA

OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is the workplace safety agency whose rules installers must follow when they install, operate and service solar and storage equipment. Its lockout/tagout rule for controlling hazardous energy, 29 CFR 1910.147, is a core reference in battery storage energy control plans. Storage maintenance procedures also cite OSHA rules on work practices (1910.333), on training (1910.332), on power generation and distribution work (1910.269) and on electrical protective equipment (1926.97). Insulated hand tools are required inside battery systems so that work complies with OSHA 1910.333 and NFPA 70E. For lifting and setting large battery enclosures, installation procedures refer to OSHA construction rules on cranes and derricks and on working near power lines. OSHA and the Department of Transportation require training for anyone who stores, moves or installs lithium-ion batteries. OSHA publishes lockout/tagout fact sheets and fall protection guidance, and solar O&M training points technicians to them.

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• sentence 5: support check: partial - Cranes and derricks (Subpart CC) and power line safety (1926.1408) are cited, but the passages do not say they are for lifting and setting battery enclosures, or even that they are installation procedures. -->