New Mandatory Electrical Reliability Standard
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TIm Rohrer
OSHA requires that Employers create a work environment that is free from known hazards, while complying with related standards. Electrical reliability has long been recognized by the NEC and NFPA 70E as an essential part of a safe work enviornment. As such, NFPA 70B Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance (formerly a best-practice) has been elevated to a "mandatory standard," similar in standing to its counterparts, NEC and NFPA 70E.
Complying with NFPA 70B has left facilities scrambling to ensure that they are performing a variety of mandated inspections and tests on periodic intervals prescribed in the standard. And they are struggling with how to perform this increased amount of testing, often with fewer people.