This change raises the stakes. Facilities can no longer treat electrical maintenance as a “check-the-box” exercise. Instead, they must adopt proactive strategies that go beyond the letter of the code, ...

In 2023, the NFPA promoted the NFPA 70B publication from a status of “recommended practices” to a Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance. Since then, we’ve seen many articles and posts ...

Electrical safety testing has been around for almost a century, and safety agencies have been testing and certifying products for almost as long. Electrical and electronic products have changed ...

Two NFPA consensus standards are used to ensure workplace safety following electrical equipment installation. Many are familiar with the NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace.

Essentially every electronic device or piece of equipment must undergo rigorous electrical safety testing and pass certification before it can be marketed, and the requirements for certification are ...

In this pv magazine Webinar, together with our webinar partner Fluke, we will provide insight into the requirements of the standard and what solutions can be used to conduct the necessary tests to ...

ELECTRICITY powers the wheels of industry and commerce, but the dangers and the hazards associated with the use of damaged electrical equipment and the use of faulty electrical tools and appliances in ...

Everywhere we look in our everyday lives, from our bench to our bedroom, there are the ubiquitous electrical cords of mains-powered appliances. We don’t give our electrical devices a second thought, ...

Utility Testing and Geographic Information Systems has launched a Mobile Electrical Safety Testing program. The MEST program is designed for utilities and municipalities interested in identifying and ...

An Impulse Voltage Generator is a specialized high-voltage test system designed to generate standard lightning impulse or switching impulse waveforms. These waveforms are applied to electrical ...

ELECTRICITY powers the wheels of industry and commerce, but the dangers and the hazards associated with the use of damaged electrical equipment and the use of faulty electrical tools and appliances in ...