Electrical Installation Condition Report in Canada
Professional Electrical Installation Condition Reports(EICR) by CareLabs
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Electrical Safety Hazards in Canada
All electrical installations will deteriorate/damage, wear, and tear with their usage and age. It will affect the reliability, suitability of the electrical system for particular applications.
Deteriorated electrical systems are the leading causes of fire. Over half of the accidental fires are caused by electricity. According to the ESA report by Ontario government, there were 1,626 electrical fires in 2018. Of the 1,626 electrical fires, 1,334 were residential, 97 industrial, 54 institutional, 50 retail, 49 commercial, and 42 health care facilities.
So, you should get check the conditions of your property’s electrical installation periodically to ensure that your electric installation hasn’t degraded.
At Care Labs, we are providing various testing, inspection, study, analysis, and certification services for electrical installations in various countries around the globe. As a result, we offer you a competent global network of professionals, services, and technology.
Care Labs is offering comprehensive Electrical installation conditions testing and inspection service to ensure the safety of your workers and your property.
What is EICR?
Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR), assesses the safety and servicing condition of the existing electrical installation within a property at the time of the inspection, irrespective of the age of the installation.
The inspection and testing should be carried out on electrical installation at appropriate intervals to find out, if anything, needs to be done to improve efficiency of power system.
An electrical hazard that can be identified EICR inspection:
- Poor insulation resistance values of cables and other equipment.
- A poor earthing system, by which the leakage current cannot dissipate to earth safety freely.
- Poor terminations of cables lead to temperature rise
- Risks involved with your electrical system
- Improper sizes and types of cables
- Perished Insulation and oxidation of cables.
- Poor routing of cables.
- Poor manufacturing standards of panels, equipment, and inadequate space within panels.
- Poor ventilation circulation within the panels also leads to a rise in temperatures,
- Humidity levels within the electrical panels
Care Labs offers electrical installation testing and inspection service at pace with the changes in the CE code or CSA C22.1 – Canadian Electrical Code and the British Columbia Electrical Safety Regulations.
Our EICR Report Services Can Help You:
- Assure the quality, efficiency, safe and reliable electrical installation or electrical plant
- Integrity and degradation of the wiring
- To comply with legal requirements, international standards, and local statutory requirements
- To verify electrical installation design and to ensure that equipment match design and safety codes.
- Assures the quality, safety, and reliability of your facility’s electrical installation
- Monitor the electrical installation and equipment of your facility
- Implementing all essential approved checks
- Identify installation faults through analysis
- Identify conditions that can lead to potential hazards and short circuits
Our EICR Inspection Steps Include:
Fig.1: Data collection method
- Check for any electrical circuits that are overloaded.
- Check for any potential electrical hazards and fire hazards are present
- check for any earthing or bonding issues
- Tests were carried out on wiring and fixed equipment to check that they are safe
- The suitability of the switchgear.
- The serviceable condition of switches, sockets, and apparatus.
- The wiring system types and their conditions.
- Check the suitability of the residual current device (RCD) for your fuse box
- The presence of adequate identification and warning signs
- Check for any damage/other deterioration, wear and tear
- Any changes in the operation of your premises could lead to, unsafe circumstances
Other services that could be used for installation condition check:
- Electrical Audit for Risk assessment
- Third-Party Inspection, testing for electrical installations
- Visual & Thermography Inspection
- Electrical Safety Test
- Building Envelope Thermography Inspection
- Thermography Testing
- Electrical Switchgear Testing & Certification
- Commercial Electrical Inspection
- Biomedical Equipment Safety Inspection
- Protective Devices Testing
- Short Circuit Analysis
- Relay Coordination Study
- Load Flow Analysis
- Power Quality Study
- Harmonic Analysis
- Energy Auditing
- Arc Flash Hazard Assessment
- Arc Flash Study & Analysis
- Portable Appliance Test
- Electrical Safety Test of Biomedical Equipment’s
- Earth Bonding & Grounding Tests
- Protection down conductors and Air-terminals
- Servicing of Circuit Breaker
- Load Test for Generator, UPS
- Testing and Calibration of Circuit Breakers
- Emergency Light Maintenance
- Battery Test & Maintenance
Care Labs offer electrical installation condition report services to different industries including retailers, plant operators, manufacturers, governments and different organizations.
We offer electrical installation condition report in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Alberta and all the major states in the Canada. Contact us now!
