The most significant safety issue in the electrical industry is the threat of electrical workers being injured or killed by arcs and blasts. The principal hazards associated with such arcs and blasts ...

An arc flash is one of the most serious electrical hazards that can occur in a workplace. The immense energy released – heat up to 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit 1 – is an alarming danger to people close ...

Assumptions and complacency are two of safety’s worst enemies. If the following story hits uncomfortably close to home for you, it will have served its purpose. In January 1993, two employees were ...

It's easy to complain, “We did everything right!” after a catastrophe – particularly when an explosive arc blast destroys the evidence. But when John Kay, senior specialist, medium voltage ...

Arc flash is the term describing an extremely dangerous electrical hazard when uncontrolled current passes between two conductors. When voltage is high enough (over 480V), the intense heat of the arc ...

In Episode 15 of “EC&M Asks,” our subject matter expert Tommy Northcott, P.E., a senior power engineer and branch manager for Jacobs Technology, Inc., answers more reader-submitted questions regarding ...

ANDOVER — A North Billerica company faces fines up to $81,000 in connection with the injury of two workers in an "arc flash blast" at a local construction site just before Thanksgiving last year.