Danny received a call from a customer in Tampa, Florida, where the toilet line broke while she was gone. When the customer came home she immediately called her insurance agent. Her insurance agent contacted Danny Green from Green Cleaning and Restoration. Danny was able to get to the customers home within in the hour.

All E-TES power cords are equipped with GFCI protection. "GFCI" stands for Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter which are devices designed to protect people from severe or fatal electric shocks by interrupting the flow of electric current.

Have you ever experienced an electric shock? If you did, the shock probably happened because your hand or some other part of your body contacted a source of electrical current and your body provided a path for the electrical current to go to the ground (A ground fault), so that you received a shock.

Ground faults occur when current is leaking somewhere, in effect; electricity is escaping the circuit to the ground. How it leaks is very important. If your body provides a path to the ground for this leakage, you could be injured, burned, severely shocked, or electrocuted. A GFCI senses the current flowing to ground and switches off the power before electrocution can occur.

A GFCI constantly monitors electricity flowing in a circuit, to sense any loss of current. If the current flowing through the circuit differs by even a very small amount (4-6 mA - 0.004 to 0.006 amps) from the returning current, the GFCI quickly switches off power to that circuit. The GFCI interrupts power in 20-30 mS (0.020 to 0.030 seconds) to prevent a lethal dose of electricity. You may receive a painful shock, but you should not be electrocuted or receive a serious shock injury.

In homes built to comply with the National Electrical Code, GFCI protection is required for most outdoor receptacles (since 1973), bathroom receptacle circuits (since 1975), garage wall outlets (since 1978), kitchen receptacles (since 1987), and all receptacles in crawl spaces and unfinished basements (since 1990).

For safety reasons, cleaners and restorers should use GFCI outlets whenever available. If GFCI protected outlets are not available on the jobsite, portable GFCI devices or cords equipped with GFCI protection should be used with all cleaning and restoration equipment and may be required by OSHA.

Mandatory use of portable Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCI's) began in the 1970's not long after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was formed by an Act of Congress. The first requirements for GFCI use resulted from an OSHA mandate applying to Construction Industry businesses. The mandate required the use of GFCI's whenever "temporary power" was used on the jobsite.

New regulations which went into effect in August 2007 extended GFCI-use requirements for the first time to OSHA's General Industry category of businesses which cover most of the rest of U.S. industry with the exception of agriculture, mining and maritime. Now, in order to comply with OSHA Regulations, a great deal of maintenance, remodeling or repair activities, involving buildings, structures or equipment must be done with workers using GFCI protected equipment. The new activities for which OSHA has mandated the use of GFCI's cover a large segment of industrial functions having "construction-like" characteristics.

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