IMI Hybrid Advanced Electric Vehicle Safety Awareness

Basic principles for safe electrical working, to include:

• Risk assessments and Safe Systems of Work
• Permits to work
• Personnel competence and qualification
• Use of personal protective equipment and appropriate tools
• Workshop safety practices
• Isolation of electrical equipment before work
• Confirmation that electrical equipment is not live before work
• Testing procedures for ensuring electrical circuits are safe to work on, and remain so until work is complete.

Available resources e.g. HSE Publications

• Safe working techniques in electric and hybrid vehicle testing, build and maintenance, to include:
• Handling and storage of high voltage components (specifically batteries)
• Vehicle or prototype build
• Testing – test procedures during build (e.g. confirming no high voltage present during assembly) and for testing of completed vehicles
• Crash testing and destructive component testing
• General maintenance procedures for electric and hybrid vehicles
• Rework or repair of electric and hybrid vehicles
• Disposal of removed components during maintenance or end-of-life
• Practical demonstration of safe working techniques