Arc Flash Mitigation Techniques - Substitution Substitution of Electrical Equipment You can, however, replace equipment. After performing an arc flash study, you may discover that one …
Arc Flash Mitigation techniques - Elimination Arc flash mitigation is important: to ensure the safety of a worker, every possible step must be taken to mitigate …
What Can I Do With Incident Energy Studies? Today, I will outline three things you can do with a completed incident energy study. Completing these tasks is an …
3 Causes of Harmonics on your power system But what causes harmonics? Harmonics are caused by non-linear loads on a power system. Typically, electric current is produced as …
Electric Shock and the Human Body A little while ago, I talked about two important components of electricity: voltage and current. Understanding both is key to …
How to Protect Against Ground Faults I've already talked a bit about what grounding is, and what types of grounding are most common. What I haven't …
Equipotential Zones: Keeping you safe during energized work If you are working on high voltage equipment (like power lines), you need to be sure that you are protected …
Three Different Types of Grounding Today I'm going to give you a brief overview of three different types of grounding systems that are important. These …
What is Grounding? What is grounding in an electrical sense? Anyone with a little bit of a background in electronics will tell you …
What is Electricity? What is Electricity? Electricity is everywhere: it powers our homes, our transportation, and our entertainment. Electricity is the reason that …
6 Reasons to Have an Electrical Safety Program When I first started researching and writing about electrical safety, I didn't really know what an electrical safety program was …
Electrical Safety Program Wrap Up: Documentation, Evaluation and Corrective Action Now that you've finished with Implementation, you electrical safety program is almost complete. The only things left to do are …