April 26, 2016
The Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Industry Applications Society, Electrical Safety Committee held its annual electrical safety workshop (ESW) March 6-11, 2016. “Since its founding in 1991, the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop has served to accelerate the dispersion of information and knowledge impacting electrical safety.”1 The ESW brought together mainly electrical engineers, with some safety professionals to discuss the latest research and other discussions related to electrical safety.
An arc flash workplace incident is the result of an electric arc of sufficient uncontrolled energy to cause a fire, explosion or blast and damage to equipment or installations and skin burns and serious personal injury for persons in the arc path. A tutorial before the beginning of the platform presentations, “What you need to know about electrical arc protection that is not in the safety standards yet,” contained technical information and data on how to best characterize the behavior of different types of electric arcs and protection from an arc flash.
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