Doin' the EHAP Dance

Feb 9, 2017

1 min read

HMI and ArborOne teamed up to go through their annual Electrical Hazard Awareness Program training. Ed Carpenter, of North American Training Solutions got the crowd "charged" for the day by having everyone do a pre-training EHAP dance.....and you thought we could only climb trees!

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