Standard operating procedures for common street lighting jobs. Use them as templates and add your local rules and the maker’s instructions.
- SOP: Safe isolation before electrical work: Make it dead, keep it dead, prove it dead.
- SOP: Traffic management at a work site: Protect the crew and the public.
- SOP: Work at height from a MEWP: Bucket truck work at the top of a pole.
- SOP: Replace a luminaire, driver, or node: The most common corrective job.
- SOP: Night patrol: Find dark lights before residents do.
- SOP: Cabinet inspection: The preventive visit to a cabinet or feeder pillar.
- SOP: Make a damaged pole safe: After a vehicle hit, a fall, or a report of a shock.
- SOP: Mass outage after a storm: Restore in the right order.
- SOP: Clean and check a solar street light: The routine visit that keeps solar lights working.
- SOP: Commission a controller or node: Checks to do before you trust the data.
- SOP: Resolve and close a work order: The record that makes every report useful.