Electrical and Arc Flash Safety

These classes will be taught by Steve Cress Author of ArcPro Software and Hugh Hoagland

March 25-26

NASCO Rainwear

We must receive one week before the test date for sample preparation or make arrangements to ship to lab. New and non US/Canadian Customers must make payment before test date.  Testing is offered on a first come/first served basis with priority for consulting customers.  New policy: $100 per material for prep/washing and cutting panels and $100 for international report shipping. No guarantee is made of when testing will occur.  Schedule with ArcWear to ensure you can be tested on prefered date.

Canada Training Group

Dear ArcLetter Member,

The ArcWear™ Electric Arc and Flash Fire Newsletter is a quick update on Flame Resistant Clothing issues and news from OSHA and standards committees. This newsletter is FREE and will bring you up to date on the issues that surround flame resistant clothing for flash fire hazards and the electric arc. For previous newsletters or to sign up, visit http://www.arcwear.com

Update your skills to the NEW 2009 NFPA 70E training materials from e-Hazard.com at a special price.  If you have been through our TTT you can come back for the three days for $999 and receive all the training and the new e-Hazard materials.  Never been before.  With a few slots left in the March 30-April 2 class, you can receive a discount.  Normal price $4000 for LV and $2000 for the HV but this time only, you can recieve BOTH LV and HV for $5000.  This includes expert instruction and support from the e-Hazard team and over $2000 in video support for your training career.  e-Hazard even welcomes competitors to use our materials.  We just want the BEST training materials available to everyone.  With e-Hazard.com license you only need to purchase the workbooks.  If you don’t have the new materials, they are free to those who have been through the TTT when they purchase workbooks.

March 30-April 2, 2009 ONLY

Last newsletter we reported several arc testing reports for layers of DriFire undergarment testing.  One of the reported materials had an error in the brand name of the fabric.

The fabric was reported as “6 oz Tencate Tecasafe 245″. This does not exist.  The material should have been 4.6 oz Tencate Comfort Blend 245.

End users could have thought this was Tencate/Southern Mills excellent material TecaSafe Plus which receives OVER an 8 cal/cm² on its own. Thus the correction.

The confusion in brand name was ArcWear’s (my) mistake based on information from a third party providing the fabric.

For further clarification another material was not fully described.

5.25 oz Mount Vernon Mills over 5 oz DRIFIRE 05105 should have been reported as 5.25 oz 100% FR Cotton Mount Vernon Mills Lakota Twill over 5 oz DRIFIRE 05105.  Some thought this was the 5.5 oz 88/12 MVM material and it was not.

In the process we discovered some increases in protection from some materials by color in multilayer systems which had not show such a difference in single layer systems.  This will be reported at the next ASTM meeting as we continue to learn about fabric response in electric arc.

ArcWear is committed to providing the most up to date arc testing information in assisting companies to provide the most protective, comfortable and affordable arc rated clothing.  ArcWear does not sell any of the flame resistant clothing above. We provide testing services and consulting.

Hugh Hoagland

Question: Our utility is working to gather data related to layered FR clothing. Specifically, how does the air gap between layers of FR clothing increase the ARC level of protection?   Can you help us understand where we can find this information?   Is there a multiple factor as a general rule.   I have not found a consistent multiple at this point.   The only info I found states testing is required to determine the actual Arc ratings.

Drake Drobnic is a principle member of NFPA 70E and recently joined the e-Hazard.com team as he transitions from Visteon/Ford Motor Company.  Drake’s involvement in electrical safety began as an electrician as with most of our team and continued into management in at Ford and then Visteon.  His expertise was shown at the NFPA 70E committee as he was appointed.  But Drake knows electrical safety from both sides of the table and is committed to working with companies to assist in state of the art electrical safety program building and training.

Welcome to both of these team members.  e-Hazard.com is an electrical safety consulting company partially owned by ArcWear.com.  The goal of this company is to provide the best electrical safety training materials and trainers to help people who work with electricity go home safe at night to their families.