October 25, 2023
Live online event hosted by The Electricity Forum.
Electricity Today Magazine Live Online Forums deliver live content, networking opportunities and engaging virtual experiences to our community front-line electrical professionals working in Industrial, Commercial and Institutional power systems. This Live Online Forum offers perspective and discussion on Workplace Arc Flash/Electrical Safety policies, practices and solutions with focus on worker protection and hazard mitigation.
45 minutes presentation includes 10 minutes of Q&A.
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
CBS ArcSafe
Going the Distance for Arc Flash Safety: An Introduction to Remote Racking and Switching
This presentation will introduce how remote racking and switching can be used for arc flash risk reduction. In addition, we will review how changes to arc flash calculations (from 2018’s update to IEEE 1584) may be impacting incident energy values on electrical switchgear.
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
EasyPower, part of Bentley Systems
10 Steps to Effective Arc Flash Assessment
Developing and implementing an arc flash risk assessment program that meets the requirements of IEEE 1584, NFPA 70E, and OSHA Standard 29 is challenging. Meeting these requirements on a constrained budget and with limited manpower requires proper planning and execution. We outline a commonsense approach.
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
I-gard
I-GARD SMART HRG Technology: maximizing protection, ensuring process continuity
Our presenter will go over fundamentals of High Resistance Grounding (HRG) systems, relevant standards to this technology, conversion and comparison between grounding methods, differences versus a standard HRG system, typical configurations. You will learn more about the benefits of the I-Gard SMART HRG system in terms of increased electrical safety for your personnel and system operation.
High Resistance Grounding is a proven technology that provides process continuity even under a single ground fault condition. The SMART HRG from I-Gard is the only HRG system that ensures continuity of your processes. It offers feeder indication and second fault protection which ensures that your most critical process is operational at all times, providing an opportunity for increased revenue.
The SMART HRG solution offers the benefits of the HRG technology and Arc Flash Mitigation functions in the same system. Once a certain level of light produced by an arc flash event is detected, the I-Gard sensors react in 1 milliseconds sending a trip signal to the relay. Detecting and interrupting an arc flash as quickly as possible reduces the incident energy levels and ensures workplace safety.
Operations Manager, CBS ArcSafe
Justin Gaull is an operations manager for CBS ArcSafe and has been working in arc flash safety equipment sales since 2015. He is a member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society and presently serves as chair for IEEE of Pulp and Paper Industry Safety Committee.
Application Engineer at EasyPower, part of Bentley Systems
Jim Chastain received his BS EE/CS from the University of California in Berkeley and then an MBA from the University of Santa Clara. Since 2014 he has been with EasyPower LLC as an application engineer. Each year he conducts an average of 12 monthly arc flash workshop at various locations. In his spare time he enjoys mentoring programming for local high school robotics teams.
Electrical Engineer
Sonny is an Electrical Engineer (B.Eng 2015) from McMaster University, Canada. With 6
years of experience in protection systems and relays, Sonny has educated consultants and end users on the
benefits of implementing electrical products into their designs to achieve safety for personnel and
equipment.
He is focused on providing timely commercial and technical support for projects and applications including
High Resistance Grounded systems, Low Resistance Grounded systems, Hybrid HRG systems, Ground Fault and Arc
Flash Protection systems, resistor-based solutions, people protection products, etc.
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