{"title":"Field measured total clearing time of protective devices and its effect on electrical hazards","authors":"K. Heid, R. Widup","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813971","url":null,"abstract":"Properly analyzing power system clearing times is vital in determining what the actual hazards are. These clearing times are measured in cycles or milliseconds. Many arc flash hazard analysis are done using the relay curve of a protective device when the actual clearing time of the circuit involves many more devices such as CT's, interposing relays and circuit breaker action. This actual clearing time of the new and service aged equipment in the field is very important in this overall analysis.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121203600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A complete electrical hazard classification system and its application","authors":"L. B. Gordon, Laura Cartelli","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813972","url":null,"abstract":"The Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, NFPA 70E, and relevant OSHA electrical safety standards evolved to address the hazards of 60-Hz power that are faced primarily by electricians, linemen, and others performing facility and utility work. This leaves a substantial gap in the management of electrical hazards in Research and Development (R&D) and specialized high voltage and high power equipment. Examples include lasers, accelerators, capacitor banks, electroplating systems, induction and dielectric heating systems, etc. Although all such systems are fed by 50/60 Hz alternating current (ac) power, we find substantial use of direct current (dc) electrical energy, and the use of capacitors, inductors, batteries, and radiofrequency (RF) power. The electrical hazards of these forms of electricity and their systems are different than for 50/60 Hz power.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123637233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The electrical hazard of the future","authors":"D. Zipse","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813960","url":null,"abstract":"This paper calls attention to a continuing and growing problem concerning an ever-present electrical hazard that is being swept under the rug. Several miscalculations and lack of understanding of grounding have combined over the past 80 years to set into motion the electrocution of dairy cows, pigs and humans residing in North America from the electrical distribution system. The urge to reduce costs by the utility companies has resulted in the lack of maintenance of the electrical distribution system. This combined with an expected increase in peak demand of 16 percent over the next decade is expected to result in an increase in stray current flowing uncontrolled over the earth shocking and killing not only dairy cows and pigs, but humans too.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130258456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Case history: Eliminating multiple sources of error","authors":"D. J. Hill","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813959","url":null,"abstract":"Electrical incidents are seldom the result of one lapse in judgment, one equipment failure, or one design choice. This is an electrical arcing incident case history that occurred at a leading petrochemical facility and which resulted from a combination of human error, operational procedures which excessively exposed the worker, and design choices made in the interests of economy rather than maximizing protection when developing the system. After this incident, the plant addressed ALL its causes in a multi-faceted solution: The facility engaged outside help to re-engineer the switchgear-contactor bussing arrangement; operating procedures were changed to eliminate the worst arc-flash exposures; custom relaying and sub-feeds were incorporated into present and future designs of this system.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130158367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industrial electrical safety inspections","authors":"D. K. Neitzel","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813963","url":null,"abstract":"Electrical safety inspections are necessary in order to verify compliance with regulations and standards, as well as to help ensure that electrical installations and equipment are safe. Compliance with the OSHA regulations and NFPA standards will provide a means to reduce accidents, injuries, and fatalities in all segments of industry.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132241838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing for electrical safety that can withstand legal scrutiny","authors":"M. Morse","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813974","url":null,"abstract":"When considering the issue of electrical safety in product and system design, it is critical to use a well defined design process that complies with the legal standards. Engineers need not be lawyers but they do need to understand how the law views the process of engineering design. For any product or system that brings electrical energy into close proximity with human users, the risk of electrical injury must always be deemed as foreseeable. Design considerations must be constructed upon knowledge of foreseeable risks from intended as well as unintended uses of the product or system. To comport with legal standards, foreseeable modes of failure must be identified and dealt with before the product or system ever sees the marketplace. Negligence in design attaches when the design process fails such that the designer's duty to follow the appropriate and proper design procedure has been breached.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129410723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Voltage program with a multi craft work force","authors":"J. Rachford","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813964","url":null,"abstract":"Performing High Voltage maintenance with a multi craft work force in an industrial plant creates a special set of safety circumstances. The team associates may be performing mechanical maintenance in the morning, operating the process equipment during the day, and then have to perform a High Voltage switching operation later in the day. It is critical under these circumstances that the associates are properly trained and that there is a good maintenance program in place for the equipment. This paper describes how one mini mill steel plant designed a successful High Voltage maintenance program that ensures safety for its work force and provides a high level of plant reliability. The program is in full compliance with NFPA 70E and OSHA 1910.269.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122304333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical “Life-Cycle-Safety: The view from the design","authors":"S. Parikh, K. Kołodziej, Carmela Salas","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813975","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will examine issues of plant safety from the standpoint of design engineers. The authors analyze the steps necessary to minimize electrical hazards in industrial processing facilities. Special attention is given to electrical safety conditions for operators and maintenance personnel. The perspectives of design engineering are to bring the reader an analysis of the hazards of electricity from initial design, through construction, operation, and maintenance of the facility and show how these hazards can be minimized when considered early on.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125204942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Field analysis of arc flash incidents and the related ppe protective performance","authors":"D. Doan, T. Neal","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813966","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will provide a field analysis of the performance and overall effectiveness of arc flash protective clothing and equipment in real world arc flash incidents, and an understanding of the applicability of existing ASTM standards to protective clothing testing for these types of incidents.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130628469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PPE in the electric arc: A case for collaboration","authors":"E. Hoagland","doi":"10.1109/ESW.2009.4813970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESW.2009.4813970","url":null,"abstract":"PPE in the electric arc has been evolving since the early 1990's. With the introduction of OSHA Safety and Health Standards in the US and arc test methods in ASTM International, the growth of knowledge in PPE and proliferation of PPE for electric arc has grown throughout the world. Misunderstandings and errors in marketing still abound but knowledgeable users, manufacturers and researchers have helped make materials more comfortable, protective and available for many more work situations. OSHA 1910.269 in 1994 and NFPA 70E in 2000, 2004 and 2009 and now CSA Z462 have codified clothing for electric arc. Brazil, Peru, Russia, recently South Africa and New Zealand are codifying laws related to arc flash PPE so the international focus is critical.","PeriodicalId":233621,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126783919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}