SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 The temperatures are rising with this heat, and many are having to work outside in the elements.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have workers that go out to our Borrego desert\u00a0where excess over 110 degrees,\u201d Ray Plummer, Electric Safety Center team lead, San Diego Gas & Electric, said.<\/p>\n
ABC 10News spoke with Plummer at the utility company\u2019s Skills Training Center in Mission Valley about how crews are prepared to work in the heat.<\/p>\n
It could be the middle of the night,\u00a0it could be,\u00a0you know,\u00a0100 degrees out,\u00a0when an outage comes in,\u201d Plummer said. \u201cOur employees,\u00a0you know,\u00a0get in,\u00a0jump into action, and they want to get the power on as quick as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plummer said it all starts with the heat illness prevention plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt starts with recognition,\u00a0and that starts every morning.\u00a0We get a note from our meteorology department, lets us know what we’re looking at,\u00a0what we’re facing for that day,\u00a0each and every day,\u201d Plummer said.<\/p>\n
That helps them have a plan of attack each day and look out for one another in the heat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt starts with every truck you’ll see we’ve got ice cold water,\u00a0stocked every morning,\u00a0plenty of supplies,\u00a0plenty of ice,\u201d Plummer said. “We’ve got special\u00a0UV shades extensions for our hard hats.\u00a0Gives you a little extra shade,\u00a0gets that sun off your,\u00a0you know,\u00a0your face,\u00a0your neck,\u00a0multiple versions of sunscreen all the way up to SPF 50.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plummer said all these things, and everything they do goes into making safety the foundation of everything they do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no job that starts without a job briefing,\u00a0safety tailgate,\u00a0stopping the job if there’s a question or if something doesn’t seem right,\u201d Plummer said. \u201cEverybody on the job has the power to stop the job.\u00a0I feel good about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 The temperatures are rising with this heat, and many are having to work outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-426969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}