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Health and Safety Plan Page 5 * The local power company shall be contacted, in order to verify the minimum allowable clearance from high-voltage power lines. Under no circumstances will any person, piece of equipment, or phase of operation come within 10 feet of overhead power lines. * If the work area is unavoidably close to buried or overhead power lines, the power shall be turned off, with the circuit breaker locked and tagged out. * All electrical equipment is to be properly grounded, and under no circumstances are any modifications to made to any piece of electrical equipment. All electrical equipment is to be inspected daily for damaged leads or plugs. Any piece of equipment that is damaged shall not be used on the site, and shall, in fact, be removed from the site for disposal or repair. * If electrical equipment must be connected by splicing wires, the source shall be de -energized first, the breaker box locked out and appropriately tagged by the person who is to perform the splicing operation. All connections are to be appropriately taped. Once the splicing operation is complete, the person who performed the splice shall bring the source back into operation. * Each person that has cause or need to use a piece of electrical equipment shall ensure that he/she is fully familiar with the equipment's operation and features. 3.3 CHEMICAL HAZARDS To reduce the possibility of injury due to chemical hazards, personnel shall wear those pieces of Personal Protective equipment as specified by the task, in section 5.0 (Personal Protective Equipment). Air monitoring shall be conduced to evaluate respiratory and explosion hazards. The instruments and action levels to be used are listed in Table 3. The Musco Excavators employee conducting each field task shall be responsible for performing the specified air monitoring. In order to ensure the protection of off-site public health, site perimeter air monitoring for volatile organics will be performed (see Section 6.0, Perimeter Monitoring). If airborne levels of contaminants consistently exceed 5 ppm background levels at the perimeter of the site, the work will be stopped, the suspected source of the contamination will be covered to eliminate emissions. A decision will then be made as to how to proceed with the work and how to more fully characterize anq reduce the airborne emissions.