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Peer-to-Peer Safety Committee Update: July, 2020

All the Peer-to-Peer Safety Summits for Hold the Pull, Control the Pressure and Keep the Clearance have been cancelled for this year. With the pandemic progressing it looks like we will have to wait a while before we are able to gather in the numbers we would like to see. The committees will be considering… [Read More]

Health & Safety Committee Report: July, 2020

The IBEW Local 1245 Health and Safety Committee is reporting the following incidents: Two Tree crew incidents where the crew thought the tree was small enough that they didn’t need a rope or didn’t need to secure the rope they had in the tree. Both incidents were younger foremen, and both resulted in the tree… [Read More]

Five Important Steps to Prevent the Spread of COVID 19

For more than three months, we have been working with our members and signatory employers on the Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis. After several encouraging weeks, we are seeing record numbers of new infections in California and Nevada. It is not a disease to be taken lightly. Transmission of the mutated virus is frighteningly easy, and there is… [Read More]

Updated Workplace COVID 19 Resources

A list of general COVID-19 resources grouped by agency, a section with resources on reopening workplaces, and additional industry-specific COVID-19 resources grouped by industry.  It includes a table of contents.  As with previous versions, it is intended as a resource and is not comprehensive.

Helicopter Accident Claims Lives of Two IBEW Members

It’s with great sorrow that we announce the passing of two IBEW members — IBEW Local 676 Journeyman Lineman Jimmy Wasdin, age 41, and IBEW Local 1245 Fourth Step Apprentice Lineman Travis Shull, age 29 — who lost their lives in a workplace accident near Fairfield, CA on June 2, 2020. Details are still emerging,… [Read More]