scope:

Covered. This standard addresses electrical safety requirements for employee workplaces that are necessary for the practical safeguarding of employees during activities such as the installation, operation, maintenance, and demolition of electric conductors, electric equipment, signaling and communications conductors and equipment, and raceways for the following:

Public and private premises, including buildings, structures, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and floating buildings

Yards, lots, parking lots, carnivals, and industrial substations

Installations of conductors and equipment that connect to the supply of electricity

Installations used by the electric utility, such as office buildings, warehouses, garages, machine shops, and recreational buildings, that are not an integral part of a generating plant, substation, or control center

Not Covered. This standard does not cover the following:

Installations in ships, watercraft other than floating buildings, railway rolling stock, aircraft, or automotive vehicles other than mobile homes and recreational vehicles

Installations underground in mines and self-propelled mobile surface mining machinery and its attendant electrical trailing cable

Installations of railways for generation, transformation, transmission, or distribution of power used exclusively for operation of rolling stock or installations used exclusively for signaling and communications purposes

Installations of communications equipment under the exclusive control of communications utilities located outdoors or in building spaces used exclusively for such installations

Installations under the exclusive control of an electric utility where such installations:

Consist of service drops or service laterals, and associated metering, or

Are located in legally established easements or rights-of-way designated by or recognized by public service commissions, utility commissions, or other regulatory agencies having jurisdiction for such installations, or

Are on property owned or leased by the electric utility for the purpose of communications, metering, generation, control, transformation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy.