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 [...]

compliance, nameplate, nfpa| May 24, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: A Question About Machine Nameplate Durability

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 [...]

field label, nrtl inspections| May 17, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

NRTL Inspections are not Field Label Evaluations

The sales team at Lewis Bass often receives calls from interested clients asking about our "NRTL Inspection" services. What they really mean to say (and are actually referring to) is a, "Third Party Electrical Evaluation" also known in our industry as a field label evaluation for unlisted equipment. It is quite easy to see how [...]

F47 testing, semi| May 10, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

SEMI’s F47 Voltage Sag Immunity Standard History From 1996-2006

SEMI F47 testing got its start with the demanding needs of the semiconductor industry What we now know as SEMI F47-0706 testing began as a series of research experiments conducted by The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in the late 1990s under Section 24: Power Quality in the Semiconductor Industry. Industry participants and contributors to [...]

compliance, SEMI S2| May 3, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: A Question About SEMI S2 Compliance

california SB/DVBE, certificate| April 26, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

What does Lewis Bass’s California small business certification grant us?

Lewis Bass received official small business certification status in California in December of 2020. (you can download our official certificate here). Much like the benefits and incentives granted us by our WOSB and WBENC certifications on a nationwide level, the California SB designation allows for California state contract bidding benefits not normally granted to larger [...]

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 [...]

F47 testing| April 12, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: A Question About F47 Testing Semiconductor Equipment

field label, vulcan construction| March 29, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Lewis Bass Recent Project Interview Series 2: Vulcan Construction

Welcome back to our continuing series entitled Lewis Bass's Recent Project Interviews. This series offers an inside look into recently completed projects in which we played a key role. In many of our projects, Lewis Bass is brought on as a sub-contractor to a construction firm or other type of general contractor in the course [...]

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