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    The document provides safety precautions and guidelines for a power electronics laboratory. It emphasizes that safety should be the top priority when performing experiments. Students must familiarize themselves with emergency equipment locations and read all safety procedures. General rules include keeping work areas clean and neat, prohibiting food/drinks and listening devices, and preparing for labs. Detailed safety tips are provided for working with electrical circuits and equipment, such as always disconnecting power before making changes, checking connections, and taking precautions around rotating machinery. Students are responsible for following these guidelines to protect themselves and others.

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    The document provides safety precautions and guidelines for a power electronics laboratory. It emphasizes that safety should be the top priority when performing experiments. Students must familiarize themselves with emergency equipment locations and read all safety procedures. General rules include keeping work areas clean and neat, prohibiting food/drinks and listening devices, and preparing for labs. Detailed safety tips are provided for working with electrical circuits and equipment, such as always disconnecting power before making changes, checking connections, and taking precautions around rotating machinery. Students are responsible for following these guidelines to protect themselves and others.

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    McMaster University

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    Power Electronics Laboratory


    Safety Precautious
    Safety First: Execution of Lab work in a safe manner is even more important than performing accurate
    electronic measurements and construction neat circuits. The rst step is always to become familiar with
    the Lab itself. You should know where the re extinguishers and the emergency exits are located. Equally
    as important is the location of nearest phone to call for help. You should also know all equipments and
    substances that are used in the Lab to take the necessary precautions.

    General Rules
    Safe practices and procedures are of utmost importance in this course. Students are required to read,
    acknowledge and at all times obey by all safety procedures within the lab.
    Keep work areas clean and neat. Components and leads must be placed at their appropriate places
    once used.
    No food or drinks allowed in the lab.
    Listening devices are prohibited i.e. no hand phones, walkmans (Walkman?), iPods, etc.
    Preparation for the lab is important in order to know what is expected out of you during the lab.
    Attached you will nd a listing of minimum safety practices which must be practiced in the lab at
    all times. These are also basic safety practice requirements. Additional instructions and information
    will be necessary from time to time.
    Read the attached safety guideline.
    Your cooperation and attention to these safety procedures are expected and appreciated.
    The precautions are for your protection and that of others.

    Safety Tips for Power Electronics/Machines Laboratory


    1. Do not energize a circuit before it is checked by the instructor.
    2. Never handle live circuits.
    3. If anything in a circuit has to be changed, switch o the power supply rst.
    4. Do not touch any insulated part of an energized circuit, unless it is absolutely necessary.
    5. Always make connections from the load toward the source of power. Connect the power source last.
    6. Disconnect the source of power rst.
    7. Always used the bench supply with installed circuit breakers, never use the power line as a supply.

    McMaster University

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    8. Check current connections to make certain they are tight. Loose connections can be dangerous as
    well as giving erroneous experimental results.
    9. Never open a life circuit.
    10. Never open the secondary of a transformer if the primary is energized.
    11. Disconnect the clip end of the potential leads when changing meter function.
    12. Set rheostats for minimum current (i.e., maximum resistance) before energizing the circuit (Except
    when it is stated oppositely in the procedure).
    13. Always set variable voltage supply to minimum output voltage before switching them on.
    14. Do not allow leads to lie on the ground.
    15. Do not allow leads to touch rotating parts.
    16. Keep neckties, loose clothing, etc., away from rotating parts.
    17. Make sure that couplings are always covered by their special coupling guards.
    18. Assume that capacitors are charged. Discharge them through a resistance before removal from storage
    and before disconnecting from a circuit.
    19. The green and yellow lead is the ground lead. Use them to connect the ground of the machines and
    dierent components in your test set to the main ground point on the bench. Never use these leads
    for live connections.

    Safety Rules and Suggestions

    Freedom from preventable accidents is an important measure of the foresight and capability of supervision
    in the engineering industries. The student should give thought to the subject of accident prevention early
    in his or her training. He or she should prepare mentally to recognize and avoid dangerous situations, and
    to cope with emergencies. A set of rules cannot be made to apply to all situations. The student should
    develop the ability to analyze a particular situation. An engineers reputation for reliability is seriously
    injured if his lack of foresight results in injury to himself, associates, or equipment.
    1. Haste causes many accidents. Work deliberately and carefully. Verify our work as you go along.
    Good planning before coming to the laboratory will promote safety.
    2. When working on live electrical apparatus, use only one hand as far as practical, keeping the other
    hand disengaged from circuitry. All power circuits are dangerous. Adjustment of energized circuits
    should be made with caution. Do not permit any part of your body to complete a circuit.
    3. Close power switches quickly and positively. Hesitant closing may result in an electric arc. Burns
    from an electric arc may be severe and slow-healing. You can depend on the circuit breakers and
    fuses in the circuit to prevent over-currents.
    4. Be careful to keep watch bands, rings, necklaces, and other metallic objects out of contact with live
    parts when working around electrical apparatus. It is a good idea to remove watches with metal
    bands while working in the laboratory.

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    5. Long hair should be up when working around rotating machinery. Likewise, loose clothing, neckties,
    etc. should be avoided around rotating machinery.
    6. Make sure the plugs t snugly in their sockets. Sometimes they get old and worn so that they slide
    out too easily. Never splice two un-isolated plugs together so that electrically hot metal is exposed
    on the bench. Try to arrange your test bench in such away that you do not need too long leads. In
    case that you still need longer leads use isolated-tip leads. As much as possible, use the isolated-tips
    leads for power circuits, and the unisolated type for measuring voltages or signals.
    7. Never connect leads so that they hang above rotating parts of equipment. Use leads long enough to
    have some slack. Avoid long, unsupported spans.
    8. When wiring a circuit, always connect to the source of power as the last step. When disassembling
    a circuit, disconnect from the power source as the rst step.

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