Home improvement projects can help homeowners transform their homes. Such projects are costly, but many homeowners save money by doing some, if not all, of the work themselves. The Electrical Safety ...

As more and more employers perform arc flash assessments of their facilities to keep workers safe and meet OSHA and NFPA 70E requirements, they usually discover that they have a lot of dangerous ...

Theoretically, you could gamble with unsafe acts and never be injured. A common example of this is people who use a lawnmower without eye protection. One person might engage in this unsafe behavior ...

Electricity helps make our lives easier, but its potential for shock and fire-related hazards are often taken for granted. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) actively supports National ...

Protecting workers from electrical injury has been the essential mission of NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, 5 since the mid-1970s, when it was first developed at the request ...

Safety is a constant state of mind on the job floor and in the workplace, often woven into a company’s culture. Safety begins with design-first thinking. Safety by design is an achievable intervention ...

EVERETT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anyone who works with electrical or electromechanical equipment knows that safety is important. But defining specifically how to achieve a safe work environment ...

An electrical safety material safety data sheet or "ES MSDS" is a communication tool that can characterize electrical hazards using a familiar format often seen in training for chemical safety. For ...

Home inspectors keep circling the same problem in their reports: improvised electrical work that looks clever at first glance ...

Due to the risk of electric shock, burns, and secondary injuries, working with electricity poses inherent hazards. Using properly insulated tools is important to protect users from arc flash, electric ...

More than 21,000 workers in the U.S. have been injured and 1,500 have died in workplace electrical accidents since 2008 according to the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), a non-profit ...