Guarantee Electrical Safety and Adherence to Professional Solutions. From Arc Flash Studies to Infrared Inspections, our wide-ranging services assist in protecting your employees, improving compliance, and boosting operational safety. Rely on our knowledge to evaluate, reduce, and handle electrical hazards efficiently.
e-WorkSAFE provide a comprehensive arc flash study including full on-site evaluation, modeling, analysis drawing, fault current and coordination studies.
An Arc Flash Study is the evaluation of a workplace facility by an electrical safety expert to determine hazards and risks in relation to electrical systems. The on-site study results in arc flash equipment labeling, fault current and coordination analysis, recommendations for improvements and requirements for proper personal protective equipment (PPE).
Organizations such as OSHA, NFPA, ASTM, and IEEE aspire to protect electrical workers from electrical hazards through training, proper equipment maintenance, proper use of tools and protective equipment, and sound engineering methods for design and analysis of electrical systems.
Our engineers are all members of IEEE, the organization setting the standards for arc flash studies. We use ETAP, Easypower and other software packages to give the best, most accurate results.
A program for electrical safety outlines the standards, procedures, and practices required to handle risks associated with using powered electrical equipment. It can function as a standalone application or be integrated into an existing safety management system. It should adhere to the safety management system’s standards, be feasible, sustainable, and a measurable effort to reduce or mitigate the risk of exposure to electrical hazards.
How to Begin
Collect your current electrical safety program documents and have our team of subject matter experts (SME) review your procedures to provide you with insightful feedback. After evaluating all components of your comprehensive ESP, we will deliver a detailed report along with suggestions for modifications to enhance safety and compliance.
Documents Reviewed Include:
Electrical safety audit guarantee that your facility and staff adhere to CSA Z462 & NFPA 70E as well as OSHA standards for compliance.
A thorough external audit will uncover gaps in processes, blind spots and work practices that may need reinforcement or have become obsolete.
A Compliance Inspection provides insight into how effectively your company adheres to electrical safety compliance standards.
What are the focus points of Electrical Safety Audit?
Mitigating arc flash hazards entails implementing measures to reduce the risk of dangers in your facility should an arc flash occur. PPE is often perceived as the answer to preventing injuries, but it does not ensure that an individual will remain safe during an arc flash. Considering safety from an engineering perspective in your facility is crucial to minimize risks for all employees.
The main objective is to minimize incident energy, which refers to the energy produced by an arc flash. Incident energy is related to arcing duration, and utilizing “faster-acting” devices is essential since they can interrupt arcing currents more quickly and ultimately decrease the total incident energy from an arc flash.
A coordination study will examine your settings to ensure that the most effective configurations can be implemented in your facility. After the coordination study is completed, the results will decide if slight modifications to settings can reduce incident energy levels. The two instances mentioned earlier can create a substantial effect and, in certain situations, possibly reduce a PPE Category 4 arc flash risk to PPE category 2, which is a considerable enhancement.
e-WorkSAFE early detection through infrared inspections can help maintain the efficiency and safety of your operations, ultimately protecting both your assets and your people from unexpected setbacks.
Why do you need IR Scan?
An engineering study in which protective devices (i.e. relays, fuses, circuit breakers, etc.) are modeled against one another to determine their optimal settings. This is done to achieve selectivity in the event of a fault (limit affected equipment), protect equipment, and limit incident energy (protect employees).
What are the Benefits of a Coordination Study?
Why are Coordination Studies Needed for Your Electrical Systems?
The majority of existing electrical systems currently in use have either not had a coordination study done or have not had it updated to reflect changes in the system.
This can pose a significant risk to a facility as a single fault in a non-essential circuit can take an entire building offline if the system has not been coordinated.
A common example of this is a 277V lighting ballast faulting and causing the main breaker to trip on a ground fault. In such an instance a properly coordinated system would limit the effected equipment to that of the breaker feeding the ballast. In addition to the posing a reliability issue, mis coordinated systems can also create dangerous situations for personnel and equipment. This is due to the protective devices not being properly sized, selected (i.e LSIG, thermal magnetic, etc.) for the application, and/or set to allow for proper system operation while ensuring personnel and equipment are protected. A properly performed coordination study will yield improved system reliability, better equipment protection, and reduced arc flash hazards for personnel.
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