Last month, we already blogged about the do’s and don’ts in fiber optic cable handling and shared with you the fiber optics safety rules poster made by no less than the Fiber Optic Association (FOA). This time, we have collaborated with our own training instructors and decided to share with you more safety best practices recommended by the FOA itself while working with fiber optics in the laboratory.

In this month’s series of Fiber Op-Tips, we’ll be discussing deeper technical and safety aspects of fiber optics cable management. Let’s start it off with today’s article on Do’s and Don’ts in fiber optics handling. We have recently discussed the basic fiber optics terminologies which anyone interested in this field should remember. Among these terminologies are the fiber optic cable elements. Let’s have a review of what these terms mean.