field evaluation, field evaluation body| June 18, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

How Lewis Bass Field Evaluates Non-Listed Electrical Equipment in San Jose, California

If you’ve ever tried to bring a new piece of machinery into operation in San Jose, California, there’s a good chance you’ve run into a very specific and very important phrase: Non-Listed Electrical Equipment. It’s not exactly the most exciting topic over coffee, but if you’re an OEM, facilities manager, or installer dealing with custom [...]

June 4, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

This Month in Electrical Safety: June 2025 Edition

Welcome to our continuing blog series: This Month in Electrical Safety, where we round up the latest news, regulatory updates, and trends shaping the electrical safety landscape. Greetings from Lewis Bass! As we transition from May into June, it's imperative to reflect on recent developments in electrical infrastructure and safety. This time we are going [...]

thermal imaging, thermography| May 21, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: Can Thermographic Inspections Help Bring My Oregon Warehouse Into Insurance Compliance?

Question: Hi Lewis Bass, We just built a new distribution warehouse in Oregon, and our insurance company is requesting thermographic inspections before they’ll finalize our policy. We weren’t expecting this request from our insurance company at all. Do we really need it? And what exactly are they looking for? – Uninsured in Oregon Lewis Bass: [...]

May 7, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

This Month in Electrical Safety

Welcome to our first edition of This Month in Electrical Safety, where we round up the latest news, regulatory updates, and trends shaping the electrical safety landscape. As April closed and May 2025 began, a few noteworthy developments caught our attention, especially if you're involved in panel building, field labeling, or regulatory compliance for industrial [...]

nfpa 79| April 23, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

The Unsung Hero of Industrial Safety: Three Times NFPA 79 Standards Saved the Day

At Lewis Bass International Engineering Services, we’ve seen it all: fires, floods, exploding panels, and plenty of "uh-oh" moments that could’ve been "uh-oh no-no-no" moments if it weren’t for one critical thing: NFPA 79 Standards. If you’re not familiar, NFPA 79 is the Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery, and it’s become the go-to playbook for [...]

ask lewis bass, nfpa 791| April 9, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: Can a European OEM Design to NFPA 791 for a U.S. Client?

From the Desk of Lewis Bass Welcome back to another edition of ‘Ask Lewis Bass,’ where we tackle your most pressing engineering and compliance questions. For this week's question, we answer a great question from a German OEM about designing a system from the start with NFPA 79/791 US compliance in mind. Having worked with [...]

April 1, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

Lewis Bass International Engineering Services, Inc. Announces Corporate Merger with Luis Bass S.A.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 1, 2025 Lewis Bass International Engineering Services, Inc. Announces Corporate Merger with Luis Bass S.A. Milpitas, CA & San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico – Lewis Bass International Engineering Services, Inc. (www.lewisbass.com) is pleased to announce a strategic corporate merger with Luis Bass S.A. (www.luislubina.com.mx), a leading engineering compliance consultancy based in [...]

quiz| March 28, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

Test Your Knowledge With the LBIES Electrical Enclosure Component Quiz

Here at LBIES we thought it would be fun for our readers to take a basic quiz on the critical components of an industrial electrical enclosure. This 10 question quiz will get to the heart of what is beating inside of any industrial electrical enclosure that is put to work in factories across the world. [...]

IAS, international accreditation service, nfpa 790. nfpa 791| March 26, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

Lewis Bass International Engineering Services (LBIES) Achieves IAS FEB Accreditation

March 25, 2025 — San Jose, California — Lewis Bass International Engineering Services (LBIES), a leading provider of third-party engineering and regulatory compliance services, is proud to announce that it has been officially accredited by the International Accreditation Service (IAS) as a Field Evaluation Body (FEB), effective March 25, 2025. This accreditation further solidifies LBIES’s [...]

nrtl, osha| March 12, 2025| Post by: LBIES Staff

A hypothetical question: What happens to NRTLs if OSHA is dissolved?

It's time to ask Chat GPT a hypothetical question concerning the fate of OSHA and the NRTLS they accredit in the United States. OSHA (The Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is now potentially going to be dissolved this year should H.R.86, otherwise known as the NOSHA Act (introduced to Congress on 1/3/25) get sufficient support [...]

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