electrical safety, safety| November 6, 2024| Post by: LBIES Staff

The Top 10 Safety Checks Every Facility Should Conduct Annually

When it comes to running a safe and efficient facility, there’s no room for shortcuts. Regular safety checks are a facility’s first line of defense, keeping both employees and equipment secure while ensuring that operations run smoothly. But with so many aspects of facility management to consider, how do you prioritize your annual safety checks? [...]

cal osha, electrical safety, field label, osha| July 26, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: Another Question About Field Labeling

Welcome to another blog in our ongoing series, Ask Lewis Bass! This series features actual submitted questions from companies in the industries we provide engineering safety consulting services to. Topics covered include those associated with our work in 3rd party field labeling, SEMI S2/S8/EMC/F47 testing and design, CE Marking evaluations, and general engineering safety consulting [...]

arc flash, cal osha, electrical safety, osha| July 12, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: A Question About Arc Flash Hazard Assessments

electrical safety, field label, safety| June 28, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: A Question About Field Labeling

ahj, authority having jurisdiction, electrical safety, safety| June 21, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

What is an Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and why should you care?

What is an Authority Having Jurisdiction? In North America, an AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction) acts as the enforcement arm of the NFPA 79/790/791 codes that govern our industry when it comes to electrical evaluations of equipment. While it was not intended to be confusing, the fact of the matter is that the AHJ isn’t just [...]

arc flash, electrical safety, safety| June 7, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Four helpful tips for mitigating arc flash hazards

How can Arc Flash Hazards be mitigated in your facility? ANSI released ANSI Z10-2012 (published in 2012 and last revised in 2017) as a standard that: ...defines minimum requirements for an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS). The primary purpose of this standard is to provide a management tool to reduce the risk of [...]

electrical safety, safety| May 31, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Three machine safety situations facility managers need to be aware of

Machine safety is nothing to be taken lightly: here are three safety situations you should be aware of. Here at Lewis Bass, we have encountered just about every possible scenario involving machine safety and compliance-blockers in the course of providing our third party electrical evaluations to our clients. In this week's blog post we are [...]

electrical safety, osha, safety| April 19, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Would you prefer an IRS audit or a OSHA safety inspection?

Few things in life are scarier than an IRS audit. But, if you or your team also happen to be operating industrial machinery without the proper paperwork and third party field labels/UL labels on them, you may find yourself subject to an OSHA safety inspection. Anytime the government shows up at your door you will [...]

electrical safety, field evaluation, field evaluation services, field label, video| February 22, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Video Premier: How Lewis Bass Performs Field Labeling

This Video is an Industry First We are pleased to announce that our first video showing one of our core services, 3rd party field labeling, is now live on YouTube this week. In this video, Lewis Bass engineers Doug Snow and Oleg Zholudev walk you through our proprietary 127 line item checklist for evaluating industrial [...]

electrical safety, safety| February 1, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

LBIES’s Electrical Safety Awareness Blog Series Part 3

And now our exciting conclusion to our 3 part series on Electrical Safety Awareness! This is the final blog in our three part series and follows the end of part 2's "Recognize the Hazards" section. Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter Always use a GFCI receptacle or circuit for cord connected tools and equipment used outdoors or near [...]

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