Operations and Maintenance Articles
The Harder They Fall
Jun 1, 2007, By Beck Ireland, Staff Writer
On April 22, 1998, a 57-year-old electrical mechanic died after falling through an unguarded floor opening on the fourth floor of a building. The victim...
Between Prevention & Compensation
Jun 1, 2007, By Beck Ireland, Staff Writer
Employers are required to record certain injuries and illnesses under the OSHA recordkeeping regulation and to adhere to certain other requirements under...
Preventing On-the-Job Injuries
Jun 1, 2007, By Carolyn Whitaker, MS, CIH, and Tom Sjostrom, CPEA, Washington State Department of Labor and Indus
When asked about the strategies they use to address top safety and health concerns in the construction industry, electrical contractors, journeymen, and...
2007 Truck & Van Preview
Oct 1, 2006, By the Editors of Fleet Owner magazine
Fleet owners, especially those of medium- and heavy-duty power units, may not be in the best of buying moods next year, given their concerns about how...
Short Circuits
Oct 1, 2006,
Raking Rookie Over the Coals About 20 years ago, I was working as an electrician on an upscale multi-story condo project with about 10 large units per...
Behind the Scenes with VFDs
Sep 1, 2006, By Doug Weber, Rockwell Automation
Ask any system designer to name the top three reasons for specifying a variable-frequency drive (VFD), and you probably won't hear a lot of maintenance...
Short Circuits
Sep 1, 2006,
Spell-Check Sillies Sometimes I think spelling should be a required course in engineering school. Here are a couple of boo-boos from an engineering office:...
Top Ten Ways to Increase Cash Flow
Sep 1, 2006, By David Brown, D. Brown Management
On a typical electrical construction project, a project management team's success is measured on gross profit. Cash flow concerns are left to the controller,...
The Case of the Residential Screw-Up
Sep 1, 2006, By John A. Palmer, Ph.D., P.E., C.F.E.I.
When a homeowner decided to finish the basement in his modest-sized home, he enlisted the help of trained professionals, hiring a general contractor to...
Short Circuits
Aug 1, 2006,
Up and Down and Turned Around While working in a large foundry, I got paired up with a traveling person that had just hired in. We were pulling in wire...
Beat the Heat
Aug 1, 2006, By John Pratten III, Fluke Corp.
For plant engineers, finding new ways to avert costly failures in their facilities is practically second nature. Particularly when it comes to industrial...
NFPA 70B Grows Stronger
Aug 1, 2006, By Thomas H. Bishop, P.E., Electrical Apparatus Service Association
In today's global economy, the quest for increased productivity is a given for most commercial and industrial facilities. Keeping those facilities running...
