Jastine Ara B.

Ognita

March 11, 2015

3SE BSEcE

Engr.Alvin C. Manongsong

INDOOR PLANT SAFETY RULES

1. All electronics and communications equipment except consumer products
installed and/or located inside buildings or in sheltered structures shall be
engineered, installed, operated and maintained in such a manner that shock,
casualty, or fire hazard shall not result when normally used and operated.
2. Users of electronics and communication systems or services shall be protected
from shock or fire hazards attendant to the use of the service.
3. Only approved protectors and other electrical surge protection devices shall be
used.
4. Where ground wires cross each other, they shall be bonded together to prevent
arcing.
5. A fixed radio station building is not likely to be struck directly by lightning because
of the shielding effect provided by the antenna tower/s or support structures.
However, waveguides, the shields of 2 coaxial cables and high frequency
antenna transmission lines can conduct hazardous currents into the building
unless adequate protective measures are employed.
6. The bonding, grounding and protection schemes shall have to be heavy duty and
very carefully engineered, installed, and maintained in order to hold differences
of potential between various parts of the station to safe values.
7. For solid state component protection, low voltage protection devices shall be
used and because low voltage protection devices have limited surge capability
themselves, several stages of protection may be employed.

8. Commercial power lines, being susceptible to voltage and current surges due to
lightning and switching operations, shall necessitate protection considerations to
prevent damage to equipment connected to such lines.
9. The minimum wire size is for electrical protection consideration only and if the
system design calls for portions of the grounding system network to carry
operating currents, the conductor size shall be increased correspondingly.
OUTDOOR PLANT SAFETY RULES
1. Outdoor electronic plants or systems should be of suitable design and
construction for their intended use, regard being given to the conditions under
which they are to be operated.
2. The owners and employees of such systems shall at all times exercise due care
to reduce to a minimum the hazard of accidental injury to their own or fellow
employees, to the public and other utilities.
3. Plants, in or out of service, shall be inspected regularly for the purpose of
insuring that they conform to the strength and electrical protection requirement of
this code.
4. Lines and portions of lines no longer required to provide the present or expected
service shall be removed by their owners or operators so that such lines shall not
become a public nuisance or hazard.
5. Where overhead wires passes through trees, safety and reliability of service
requires that a reasonable amount of tree trimming be done.
6. The poles or supporting structures of overhead lines shall be provided with an
earth ground whose earth resistance shall be no greater that 25 ohms, measures
by the fall of potential methods, and at intervals not greater than 400 meters.
7. Metallic sheaths of buried cables shall be bonded to an earth ground whenever
such cable makes an above ground appearance.

8. Communication entities owing poles or structures jointly used shall ascertain and
be responsible that strength and electrical protection requirements of this code
are met.
9. Communication circuits shall not be installed above supply circuits in excess of
7,500 volts.