The Spokane Journal of Business has an article on arc flash sales as recession proof. Safety is somewhat recession-proof but what is most interesting to me is that this subject is getting attention at the business level rather than just the engineering and safety level. Though this article might not send the right message by [...]

Metergrabber stops an arc cold. Weight Balancing Arc Flash Shield 12 cal/cm2 Rating. Watch how it works!

Many years ago Claude Maurice from Kinectrics and Hugh Hoagland from e-hazard.com and ArcWear.com collabarated to create fans for arc flash hoods. Steelgrip, NSA and Stanco all three worked with us on developing hoods. Steelgrip patented a removable design and now NSA has a new one which is removable (not breaking Steelgrip’s patent). These cooling [...]

Here is a “how to” article from the Welding Journal.

Here is about the only written guidance we at ArcWear.com have found. This comes from ConEd Testing, DTE testing, Progress Energy’s Testing. Read the page in Estex’s brochure describing the methods…

The short answer is “no”. They might someday come out but you can see my answer to this question on arc flash forum. Read the post here…

Etcetera Edutainment, a Pittsburgh-based provider of simulation and game-based safety training, earlier this month announced the release of “Electrical Safety Sim: Low Voltage”–a simulation-based training module that allows workers to learn and practice the principles of NFPA- and OSHA-based electrical safety.

This is a major change from previous governmental requirements which only required it for flaggers. Read the OSHA press release…

I used to know where this was but my link quit working. It was really just moved. All NFPA standards are online to read for FREE. Click here to go to the sign in page. You must be a member or have a FREE login with NFPA. Just sign up for it and it is [...]

Though this suit in the UK claims to be an excellent arc flash suit it leaves out a detail which is important. It has no hood/facepiece testing on the suit in the literature. The IEC standards have no requirements for testing hoods for arc protection. Without ASTM F2178 I would not recommend buying an arc [...]