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Illuminating Decisions: EPRI Lights the Way for Modern Lighting Adoption
Facility managers and operators understand the critical role lighting plays in their daily operations. Accounting for roughly 30% of a commercial building's energy load, lighting significantly impacts energy consumption and associated maintenance costs. However, focusing solely on the...
Counterfeiting Kills
Each year, the counterfeiting of well-known brands and products continues to rise, creating an even more threatening problem. Such well-known counterfeited brands, including consumer safety and critical electrical products, are estimated to be five to seven percent of world trade. The International...
Introducing Intelligent Power Today
Welcome to Intelligent Power Today Magazine, our publication that explores and explains the who, what, where, when, why and how of intelligent electrical devices, a collection of complex mechanical devices and sophisticated control systems used in industrial, commercial, and institutional...
2024 CE Code Training - Better Understanding of the Rules
CE Code training is intended to do a lot more than instruct about what changes have taken place since the last time Canada issued a national electrical code. We are producing a series of courses across Canada by one of Canada’s leading experts on the 2024 Edition of Canada’s Electrical...
Electrical Safety
IEEE Method Vs. the NFPA 70E Tables
IEEE Method Vs. the NFPA 70E Tables: Evaluating arc flash analysis methods
BY REZA TAJALI, Schneider Electric
Recent changes in workplace safety regulations have heightened the awareness of hazards associated with electrical arcs. The hazard level must be quantified and workers properly protected before entering proximity of exposed energized conductors. National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) standard 70E: “Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace” provides the guidelines for work involving electrical hazards and the selection of arc flash protective equipment.
In order to select the protective gear properly, one must have knowledge of the potential thermal energy of the electric...
How to Improve Electrical Safety
Avoid hazards with these suggestions
BY ROB PROSSER & DANIELLE GALLO, Brady
With an increase in accidents and injuries occurring in a variety of industries, employers are looking for ways to reduce hazards and improve safety within their facilities. Even with a plethora of information available to supervisors, the inundation of all of these safety recommendations can be overwhelming and can result in even the most basic of mistakes. If you or your employees can relate, it is important to go back to the basics and review the most common issues contributing to electrical risks within facilities.
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Infrared and Electrical Safety
Infrared and electrical safety: meeting safety requirements using IR windows and thermal imaging BY COLIN PLASTOW, FLUKE Electronics By installing IR (infrared) windows, panes or ports, technicians using thermal imagers can inspect live electrical equipment without removing protective covers....
Short Circuit, Arc Flash Analysis and Labeling Solutions for NFPA 70E, IEEE P1584 and CSA Z462 Compliance
Flash Hazard Analysis
The Arc-Flash-Analytic software and universal web app have been developed as easy to use yet comprehensive tools for arc flash analysis required when work is to be performed on or near the energized equipment. The web app can be accessed, operated and shared from anywhere,...
CSA Z462 and CSA Z463: A Powerful Combination
I recently viewed a destroyed 600-volt electrical panel board that had exploded when an operator reset an 800-ampere (A) breaker. His leather-palmed gloves had synthetic backs that ignited and seriously burned the back of his hands. His flame-resistant (FR) shirt was untucked and he was burned on...
Arc Flash Analysis in DC Power Systems
Advanced approaches to addressing direct-current arcing faults BY MICHAEL FURTAK & LEW SILECKY, Mersen Let’s face it: there is not very much information available about direct current (DC) arc flashes. And, if you have searched in vain, well hopefully this feature will give you some insight...