Electrical and Arc Flash Safety

Hugh Hoagland at ArcWear and Debbie Pierce at Miller Pierce now offer Arc Flash Marketing Studies and Stategic Studies for the arc flash market.  Miller-Pierce is a leading marketing company in the US providing market analysis. Click here to read about Miller-Pierce’s Arc Flash Market Strategy.

Hugh Hoagland, Lee Hale and Bill Shinn partners in e-Hazard Management, LLC (the leading electrical safety training company in the US with over 350 trainers using their materials) discuss the changes in the new 2012 standards and the affect of NFPA 70E 2012 and the NESC 2012 on electrical safety.  While many call this arc flash [...]

NSC covering NFPA 70E shows how mainstream arc flash and even electrical safety have gone.  It is a wonderful change from 17 years ago when we were fighting to bring arc flash standards for testing in ASTM F18. At that time NFPA 70E didn’t even mention arc flash as an electrical hazard. The 1995 change [...]

Three men were injured after a transformer exploded while they were replacing an above ground power vault.   One of the injured is an employee of Anaheim Public Utilities and the other two were under contract with the City of Anaheim. All three were hospitalized.  Police report that their clothing caught fire in the explosion. Oct. 26, 2011 [...]

A 38 year old miner was killed September 13, 2011, when he opened the 480 V feeder box and began to remove the leads.  He received a fatal shock.  He was working at a portable sand and gravel operation.  The full investigation has not yet been published. Click here to read more about the electrical mining [...]

Boston Dynamic has created, PETMAN,  an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing. The robot balances itself, can move freely and can simulate human physiology within a protective suit by controlling temperature, humidity and even sweating.  Its range of motion and fluidity of movement are remarkable — take a look at the linked  video. Cick here to read more [...]

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Services Canada Inc., was fined $160K for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. A supervisor was fined $11K.  In 2009, a worker sustained serious electrical burns when a a bare conductor touched the side of of the electrical panel on which he was working.  The Ministry of Labour found [...]

An 18 year old Australian tourist died when he came in contact with a metal pole while walking past a work site in Bali. Click here to view a video regarding the Bali electrocution

Milk Specialties Co. (MSC) has refused to provide OSHA access to an internal report of an alleged combustible dust explosion that occurred in August,2011.  OSHA had a subpoena issued to help determine it employees were exposed to dust hazards.  The company contends that providing the report would violate attorney-client privilege Click here to read more about [...]