Electricity is something society takes for granted, until it goes out because of a bad thunderstorm, an industrial accident or, in Florida, an osprey building a nest atop a power pole. All three ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way many of us think about safety—at the workplace and in our everyday lives. As we look ahead to the best ways to be safe in the post-COVID world, keeping ...

Why is it so important to work safely with or near electricity? The voltage of the electricity and the available electrical current in regular businesses and homes has enough power to cause death by ...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), thousands of office employees and administrative employees are injured every year nationally. Although the most frequent types of incidents are falls ...

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

What does a day in the life of an electrician actually look like? Given the fact that the broad EC&M audience works in so many vertical markets and industries, we thought it would be valuable to ...

Millions of people in the UK risk death or injury because of their ignorance about household electricity, the Electrical Safety Council has said. A survey of more than 2,000 people for the charity ...

Electrical safety testers—often referred to as “hipot” testers—are an integral part of electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing. Hipot testers get their name from the high-potential (high ...

‘IEC 60601-2-25 ED. 2.0 B:2011 - Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-25: Particular Requirements for the Basic Safety and Essential Performance of Electrocardiographs’ outlines a standard protocol ...

Millions of people in the UK risk death or injury because of their ignorance about household electricity, the Electrical Safety Council has said. A survey of more than 2,000 people for the charity ...