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NECA is constantly working to update our safety tools and resources to include the latest industry standards and regulations issued by consensus and regulatory entities. These resources include valuable tools and products that help members and industry professionals to stay successful when managing their company's safety programs by providing exclusive training material for their employees.
NECA believes that safety and health are core values. They are an integral part of achieving excellence in the electrical contracting business by maintaining the highest standards of health, safety, quality and productivity, in a proactive, practical, and cost-effective approach to manage organizational loss control. The association believes that implementation of effective safety management systems and risk management processes are essential. NECA’s commitment to job site safety is reinforced by placing special emphasis in quality safety training programs and specific policies that integrate safety into project pre-planning and project management. NECA members demonstrate safety professionalism and responsibility through every aspect of work and services with a minimum of disruption to customers.
Read the full statement here: NECA Standing Policy Statements
NECA participates with many federal agencies and consensus organizations in the development and implementation of safety-related requirements. These include the Small Business Administration Safety Roundtable, Advisory Committee on Construction Occupational Safety and Health (ACCOSH), the A-10 Committee on Construction and Demolition Operations, the National Occupation Research Agenda (NORA) committee from NIOSH, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and also National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 70E, the Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace.
NECA is a stakeholder in the Electrical Transmission and Distribution OSHA Strategic Partnership. This Partnership consists of utility contractors, trade associations, labor organizations, electrical utilities, and OSHA representatives. The ET&D Partnership is the oldest and only national OSP that OSHA has in place.
Published exclusively by IEEE and updated every five years to keep the Code up-to-date with changes in the industry and technology, the National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®) sets the ground rules and guidelines for practical safeguarding of utility workers and the public during the installation, operation, and maintenance of electric supply, communication lines and associated equipment.
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Wes Wheeler, Executive Director, Safety
NECA
Wesley L. Wheeler, SMP, CESCP, MSP is the National Electrical Contractor Association, (NECA), Executive Director of Safety. Wesley joined NECA in 2014 and has over 46 years of electrical experience.
Wesley graduated electrical apprenticeship in Jacksonville, FL and has been a member of IBEW LU 177 since 1984. Wesley is a BCSP Safety Management Specialist, an NFPA Certified Electrical Safety Compliance Professional, and a NASP Master Safety Professional. Wesley Serves on the CIASP, Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Board of Trustees.
Prior to NECA, he was safety consultant in his own business, Wheeler Safety Services, Inc. and has been a Safety Director and OSHA Safety trainer for a large industrial based electrical contractor in Florida. Wesley is a qualified OSHA Construction Outreach Instructor and has assisted in OSHA Instructor classes for Electrical Training Alliance, (etA, formerly known as the NJATC). He also has assisted etA in textbook development contributing to their OSHA workbooks. Wesley has served in many capacities in his career from electrician, foreman, superintendent, estimator, project manager to safety director and is a former member of OSHA’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH). He also has a Florida State Certified Electrical Contractor License and has also served on the NECA Codes and Standards committee for the since 2008 representing NECA on the NEC-NFPA 70 Code Panels 6 and 7 and was member of the NFPA 70E Committee for the 2018 and 2021 editions.
Wesley brings a unique, overall perspective to his position. Wesley is also a trained First Aid/BLS instructor, a Department of Labor Mine Safety Health Administration Instructor, and has had OSHA General Industry Outreach Trainer credentials from University of South Florida.
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