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Warning: Electrical Equipment May Be Hazardous to Your Healthcare  by Greg Smith  Healthcare equipment that has not been tested by an accredited testing laboratory represents potential risks to patients, doctors, and all other medical and service personnel.

Which Came First, the NEC rule or the Product Standard; or Does the Egg Precede the Chicken? by Steve Campolo The process whereby one standard can influence the other can often be fuzzy and downright confusing. This article will examine by example several recent interactions between installation code and product standards. Grounding and Bonding Methods for Outbuildings  by Michael Johnston Take a closer look at the grounding and bonding requirements and methods for separate buildings or structures supplied from other than a service and service-entrance conductors. Change...We Deal With It Not Because It's Easy, But Because It's Hard by Tom Moses Tom Moses' address to Diamond Jubilee Convention in which he analyzes people's responses to change and then challenges inspectors to be proactive in electrical safety, technology and political action. Backfire!  by David Shapiro It can happen. Research shows that what you say when urging responsible behavior can backfire—easily. Pointing out how rarely folks do what they should do is not the way to change behavior.

Editorial: IAEI's Changing Leadership Role...Helping Inspectors Adapt to Change in 2004  by James Carpenter, CEO/Executive Director Recently we have been reading in the newspaper, hearing on the radio, seeing on television that the economy is beginning to get better. Unemployment is getting lower, although not by much; people are beginning to spend again; and just today the GNP is up above estimates. What does that mean to us in the electrical industry, especially as electrical inspectors? Canadian Code: Maximum Circuit Voltages  by Leslie Stoch The Canadian Electrical Code in some instances limits maximum applied voltages to protect the general public and inexperienced people from electrical shock hazards. Unqualified persons are at greater risk due to their inability to identify electrical hazards and understand electrical shock risks. This article reviews some of the circumstances where the code prescribes maximum voltages to minimize exposure to serious electrical shock. Other Code: The World of Industry Standards   by David C. Young, PE The National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) and the National Electrical Code (NEC) are both examples of industry standards. These two standards are very important to most IAEI members because we use one or both of them every day. Though these two standards are prominent in our minds, there are thousands of other industry standards that have a significant effect on us each day. Did you know that there are industry standards that cover everything from toilet paper to topsoil? UL Question Corner  by Underwriters Laboratories The “UL Question Corner” answers questions of general interest that are sent in from authorized government inspectors and we believe will have interest for many inspectors.

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