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Electrical Shock - Answers - ✔✔Sensation and muscular spasm cause when electric
current passes through the body
Voltage - Answers - ✔✔Potential of electric energy; pressure of electrons pushing
away from each other
Current - Answers - ✔✔Flow of electrons
Most dangerous paths - Answers - ✔✔Hand to hand & left hand to either foot
Factors affecting shock - Answers - ✔✔Amount of current, path of current, amount of
body resistance, length of time current flows in body
3 ways to prevent shock - Answers - ✔✔Isolate, insulate & ground
Grounding conductor - Answers - ✔✔Used to form a low resistance path from the
ground to the metallic tool case
12MA - Answers - ✔✔Minimum AC current required to cause severe muscle
contractions
The body - Answers - ✔✔Acts like a conductor when it becomes part of a circuit
5xs - Answers - ✔✔How much more DC is required to freeze the body rather than AC
Burns - Answers - ✔✔Electrical burns, arc burns, thermal contact burns
Electrical burns - Answers - ✔✔Electrical current flowing through tissue or bones
Arc burns - Answers - ✔✔High temperatures near the body produced by electric arc or
explosion
Thermal contact burns - Answers - ✔✔When skin comes in contact with hot surfaces of
overheated electrical conductors
Electrical Arcs - Answers - ✔✔Where short circuit occurs; may cause fires
Extremely high arcs - Answers - ✔✔Damage equipment dispersing metal fragments