---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 56.12020"
title: "30"
number: "56.12020"
heading: "Protection of persons at switchgear."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/56.12020"
---

# §56.12020. Protection of persons at switchgear.


Dry wooden platforms, insulating mats, or other electrically nonconductive material shall be kept in place at all switchboards and power-control switches where shock hazards exist. However, metal plates on which a person normally would stand and which are kept at the same potential as the grounded, metal, non-current-carrying parts of the power switches to be operated may be used.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811.

### Source

Source: 50 FR 4054, Jan. 29, 1985, unless otherwise noted.