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A Tip that can SAVE your LIFE! Electrician tells a Commercial Lighting Tip, Thoughts? #electrician

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This project provides crucial electrical safety instructions for working with suspended ceilings. It emphasizes understanding that the metal ceiling grid is grounded and teaches a proper technique for handling ceiling tiles to prevent electrical shock and maintain cleanliness.

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Never ever forget the ceiling grid is [music] grounded. You've stepped up through the ladder. You've pushed up over the tile. Now you've gone up higher because you're trying to identify the lighting circuit. [music] >> Mhm. >> And now your belly or your side could be leaning or touching on a grounded metal grid. >> That makes [music] sense. >> So you could be on a fiberglass ladder. You could have the proper PPE clothes on, [music] but you still put yourself in peril because you're leaning on the grid. Use the right tools. Never use your fingertips to raise up a ceiling grid. Why? Because you leave debris on [music] your fingers. Nothing worse than finishing a commercial job and your fingerprints or your glove print. So, [music] I recommend you use your fists >> as you go up on your ladder. Use your fists straight [music] up. Push the ceiling tile up straight up. Try not to break it. A lot of times they're wedged in there. Push that out of the way with your [music] fists. >> Okay? >> And never ever forget that that grid is grounded. You don't want your helper who doesn't have the experience that you do in commercial lighting. They don't understand these fundamentals. Okay? Their father is an electrician talking to their

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