The Costs of Poor Power Quality
Poor power quality can stop production, cause disruption to operations and have serious financial impacts on businesses. Efforts to prevent problems can include planning where to site and connect a new business to the grid, specifying requirements for new equipment, carrying out condition based monitoring and scheduling any identified maintenance, having emergency plans in place, […]
Electrical Appliance Fires
Electricity often gets blamed for house fires. Genuine electrical fires occur from a variety of causes such as overloads, short-circuits, arcing contacts, poorly terminated connections, cable damage and arcing, faulty or damaged batteries, faulty solar equipment, poor power quality (particularly high volts or harmonics), ‘dodgy’ appliances, etc. An example of an electrical appliance causing fires […]
Electrical Incidents and Prosecutions (Feb to May 25)
The following electrical incidents, including electrical fires and prosecutions are but a sample of those occurring across Australia and beyond that we have been made aware of since our last newsletter. Employers and workers are encouraged to ensure all legal requirements and controls are in place when carrying out work to prevent heartache, loss of […]
Electrical Incidents and Prosecutions (Dec 24 to Jan 25)
The following electrical incidents and prosecutions are but a sample of those occurring across Australia and beyond that we have been made aware of since our last newsletter.Employers and workers are encouraged to ensure all legal requirements and controls are in place when carrying out work to prevent heartache, loss of production, fines, imprisonment, etc. […]
Ghost and Phantom Voltages in Cables
Some electrical workers use the terms ghost voltage and/or phantom voltage but these do not seem proper terms for anything to do with voltages in cables or on metallic items such as double insulated appliances. The correct terms that should be used are inductive, capacitive or leakage through a high impedance path voltages. These voltages […]
Electrical Incident Investigation – Mistakes
We have investigated many electrical incidents and trained thousands in electrical incident investigations. The results of an investigation should be mainly focused on preventing similar incidents in the future but also to comply with legislation and hopefully minimise fines imposed by the courts. Of course, it is much better to prevent incidents in the first […]
Benefits of PowerLogic Training
IntroductionPowerLogic is widely recognised for offering industry-leading training, particularly in Electric Shock Investigations. Despite its established reputation, some organisations may consider alternative providers that align with the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) and Units of Competence. Expert-Led, High-Quality TrainingAt PowerLogic, we deliver top-tier training conducted by recognised experts in the field. Chris Halliday, one of our […]
Isolate Before Accessing Roof Spaces
From 1 January 2025, all types of Qld workers must isolate the electricity supply before accessing roof spaces. This even includes situations where parts of the body enters the roof space e.g. hands, or moving through a roof space to access a roof. There are two exemptions that apply but these could place Persons Conducting […]
Electrical Incidents and Prosecutions (Sept-Oct 2024)
The following electrical incidents and prosecutions are but a sample of those occurring across Australia and beyond that we have been made aware of since our last newsletter.Employers and workers are encouraged to ensure all legal requirements and controls are in place when carrying out work to prevent heartache, loss of production, fines, imprisonment, etc. […]
MESA WA 2024 – HIGHLIGHTS
Daniel and Chris want to the conference as the Corporate Sponsor. It was a great conference, if not the best yet. The topics covered were varied and very well presented. Participants had plenty to think about and take back to their workplaces. Chris provides the following summary from his perspective on important topics:
