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Design and installation of electrical equipment is a reasonably well understood and adjusted procedure. It is done in accordance with the safety requirements of the Canadian Electrical Code and specific installation standards, with additional performance criteria of energy codes, ASHRAE codes and regulatory directives, and undoubtedly — with particular requirements of the clients. Of course, such installations are inspected by the electrical safety regulators for compliance with the accepted design and with the CE Code provisions.
Electrical faults are responsible for a substantial number of residential structure fires that result in almost $1B in personal losses, thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths each year. With the latest circuit breaker technology, many of these fires would never have ignited. However, many ignition mechanisms can only be prevented by outlet-based technologies.
In 2009 there was home fire was reported every 87 seconds. Households can expect to average a home fire every 15 years or five fires in an average lifetime. Pretty sobering statistics, which suggest it’s just a question of time before the average household is faced with the task of dealing with fire. The good news is that fire deaths have slowly declined over the past decade, due in large part to greater fire prevention awareness. Here are 10 ways to protect your family from fires.
“Support AFCI Safety” was created to educate homeowners, electrical contractors, home builders, state code adoption panels and others about the fire-prevention and potentially life-saving benefits of installing arc fault circuit interrupters (AFCIs) during new home construction. AFCI’s are a nationally recognized home electrical safety device designed to prevent electrical fires from destroying the home.
April 21, 2010 – A report released today by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Characteristics of Home Fire Victims, and Injuries, finds that adults over the age of 75 are nearly three times as likely to die in a home fire as the general public. Adults 85 and over have more than three and [...]
The services of the inspection community are of utmost importance to maximize safety and reliability. This is especially true when the inspector serves as the AHJ for the installation. This article addresses two such instances pertaining to fire pumps, one is covered by the National Electrical Code (NEC) in 695.4 and the other in the [...]
We should all be champions of electrical safety and strive to ensure that our customers, our friends and our families do not experience the worst that electricity has to offer. In the words of Wesley Smith of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who almost had a major incident, “Fire is something that you definitely don’t want to [...]
Australia is a country that has a variety of terrains from the tropical regions of the north to the mountains in the south. In February 2009, Victoria experienced one of the natural disasters that result from bushfires that become out of control. All of Victoria had reached the 40°C (104°F) temperatures in many areas by [...]
:::How to Reduce Risk of Extension Cord-Generated Fire, Electrical Shock and Property Damage::: When in need of an extension cord in the office or at home, it’s imperative to know that just because a particular cord is long enough, it’s not necessarily the right one for the job. Many erroneously believe length is the only characteristic [...]
Wonderful though electricity was in its early days as a miraculous source of light and power, installations did seem to have a habit of catching fire rather too often. In 1896, a young Swiss professor, François Borel, who was researching ways of improving cables, filed a patent for an all-mineral-insulated fire-resistant cable. But it was [...]
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