Electrical Safety in Modern Data Centers –– Protect People & Power Delivery with AVTs & Cable Cleats
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM (GMT-04:00) Eastern Time - New York
Duration: 60 minutes
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Modern data centers are pushing higher power density and higher available fault current, making electrical incidents sudden, violent, and expensive.
This presentation focuses on how Absence of Voltage Testers (AVTs) and cable cleats mitigate electrical hazards and mechanical failures in high-energy data center environments. You’ll see how AVTs enable safer lockout/tagout verification and how cable cleats prevent catastrophic cable movement during fault conditions.
We will connect these solutions to real world data center challenges, including arc flash risk, high fault currents, and increasing use of large parallel conductors—using failure scenarios, relevant standards, and field-driven best practices. The session will equip engineers, facility managers, and safety professionals with actionable strategies to improve reliability, compliance, and safety in mission-critical infrastructure.
Speakers:
Hassun Ahmad
Product Manager for Cable Cleats, Stainless Steel Ties and Tools
Panduit
With a background in mechanical and clean energy engineering, Hassun focuses on developing practical, innovative solutions that help customers simplify installations while improving safety and code compliance.
Alan Bond
Senior Global Product Manager
Panduit
Alan Bond is a Sr. Global Product Manager for the Panduit product line – Prevention through Design (PtD). Panduit’s PtD products deliver safer solutions for control and power distribution applications specific to the hazards found in the electrical workplace. In this role, Alan manages PtD product lifecycles, marketing strategies, aligns cross functional activities and condenses customer requirements into actionable products.
Alan has worked in the Defense and Lighting industries in product development as well as management roles. He has led multiple successful product launches and process improvements that include data center maintenance programs, Land Mobile Radio (LMR) mechanical and electrical system design, luminaire product developments and operational process improvements.
Alan graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
