This Electrical Arc Flash Safety and Risk Management session presents an overview of the NFPA 70E 2009 Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace and the requirements of the standards, which are intended to better protect electrical workers from injury when they work on energized electrical equipment.
The presentation covers all aspects of facility and employer responsibilities for compliance to the NFPA 70E standards, as well as the current status of OSHA enforcement of these standards.
Topics:
- Characteristics and causes of arcing faults
- Statistics of arc flash accidents and results
- OSHA enforcement and legal responsibilities
- Employers responsibilities for compliance to the codes and standards
- Equipment hazard warning labels
- Training for qualified persons
- Hazard levels and Personal Protective Equipment requirements
- Methods of determining arc flash hazard levels (arc flash analysis)
- Purchasing an arc flash hazard analysis for your facility
- Recent changes in NFPA 70E 2009 and the National Electric Code 2008
- Mitigating high hazard levels in existing systems
- Design for Safety for new electrical distribution systems
- Summary
Speaker: Joseph Weigel - Product Manager - Services Marketing - Schneider Electric
Joseph Weigel is a veteran of over 30 years in the electrical industry in the United States and in China. He currently works for Square D Services in Nashville Tennessee as their Product Manager for the arc flash awareness program. He is a member of the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)
