Managers: Never Ask to Pull a Meter

 If you're a manager, please, please listen to this message. Um, I see this all too often and I'm asking you to help us from a safety perspective. And when I teach courses, often asked the question, how many of you have been asked to restore power to a vacant unit? In other words, pull the meter and then restore power.

Now, if you're shaking your head like, who would do that? Good for you. But I'm telling you right now, people do it. And every time I teach a class, technician's like, oh yeah, my manager tells me to do it, and they've actually been threatened with their job. Blows my mind. But here's the deal. If a vacant unit or vacant apartment home does not have power, it was turned off.

It can only be restored by the utility company. Please do not ask technicians to pull a meter off and restore power. Number one, it's illegal. Two, you can get a huge fine, and three, most importantly, you could cost someone their lives. So there's no safety device between that meter. You pull that meter out, it's.

The transformer and that's it. There's no circuit breaker. There's no fuse, there's no, I'm sorry. If they get electrocuted by the main lines coming into that panel, they probably won't be here. So if you think it's okay, please, it's not okay. If you think it's not okay, good for you. Please don't ask technicians to pull electrical meters to restore power to vacant units.

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