Can I become a power lineman with a red/green color deficiency?
I once worked with high voltage as an EE. Some of my co-workers have been color blind. At more than one company. It was usually against company policy, but it didn’t seem to greatly affect their performance. Complicated wiring systems can sometimes have very complicated wiring color schemes with multiple colors and even stripes. But these tend to be banks of computerized systems, and other low or relatively low voltage situations. Even for those not color blind, it’s usually easier to trace the wire than guess what it is by color. High voltage, especially the kind of very high voltage you are describing, situations are typically designed to be visually simple. Things tend to be clearly marked with multiple visual cues and simple color schemes. Typically you will see uniform conditions with simple solid (no stripes) wiring colors like red, black, white and green. But only a fool trusts his life to color clues and markings. Even if you are not color blind, you have to examine things to m
