The invisible nature of electrical power tends to give a false sense of security to people. There are many working people exposed to these hazard risks that they do not even realize the associated risks.
What is Electrical Safety Audit?
An Electrical Safety Audit- ESA is a systematic procedure to evaluate and assess the potential electrical hazard risks and to recommend suggestions for control and improvement.
It is important to have a full electrical safety audit performed by a professional electrician every once in a while. Employers are responsible for the safety of your employees and facility’s electrical installations.
Care Labs provides several services to ensure the safety, reliability and efficiency of electrical infrastructure. We offer comprehensive electrical safety audit service for all types of facilities.
Benefits of Electrical Safety Auditing:
- Identification and elimination of safety hazards
- Prevent loss due to electrical hazards
- Insurance compliance
- Compliance with statutory safety standards, codes, and regulations
- Increased levels of safety
- More efficient use of resources
- Clarification of electrical safety responsibilities
- Ensuring longevity of your expensive equipment
- Improvement of employee morale
- Developing a dynamic record of safety performance
- Creation of positive cycle of safety improvement
- Assessing the insulation integrity of cables & wires by conducting insulation resistance tests on a sample basis
- Review of the earthing system (installation & maintenance aspects), including sample earth resistance tests
- Identifying the overloading areas by conducting load current measurements and verify it against current carrying capacity of cable calculation
- Hotspot detection using hot spot detection equipment/ thermal imaging
Checklist for Electrical Safety Audit:
An electrical safety checklist is a important checklist tool to determine if your working people and workplace conditions adhere to electrical safety compliance safety code, rules & regulations. This checklist provides an overall workplace safety assessment in managing electrical hazard risks.
Some of the check items on the electrical safety audit include:
Electrical shock/flash/injury hazards:
- Selection, installation, and maintenance of residual current circuit breaker (RCCB)
- Nuisance tripping
- Use of rewireable fuses
- Defects in earthing
- Live parts access
- Damaged electrical portable tools
- Enough interlocks for power sources
- Adequacy of illumination
Wiring methods:
- To check the wiring methods and their suitability
- To check if all the circuit conductors are bundled together
- To check the condition of the insulations and insulation standards
Grounding and bonding of equipment:
- Any equipment or components has been left plugged in must be inspected to ensure that they are properly grounded.
- To check the type of electrodes used for grounding.
- To check the size of grounding electrodes and their maintenance condition.
- To check the methods used for connections and grounding for the installations.
- Measurement of earth resistance
- Test procedure and acceptable earth resistance values
- History of modification of earthing system
- Identification of earth pits
- Testing of earth continuity, bonding, and earthing
Electrical fire hazards:
- Storage of flammable materials near the equipment
- Use of non-standard fuse wires
- Damaged insulation
- Selection and usage of appropriate fire extinguishers
- Ground fault/short circuit
- Overrated fuses and wrongly set protection relays
Extension cords suitability and safe condition:
- Check for the usage of extension cords of appropriate size and type for their intended purpose.
- Inspect all the switches and outlets
- Check for presence of faceplate in all power switches and outlets
- Check for no loose cables are accessible without removing the faceplate.
Personal protective kit:
- Availability and adequacy of PPE’s
- Signs to notify the employers about PPE
- The following checklist helps in the creation of a safe and reliable electrical system.
Compliance to standards:
- Applicability of international and local standards/ regulations
- Compliance to inspection report and inspection before any new installation
- Submission of history of accidents
Electrical safety training:
- Need of safety training
- Training content and periodicity
- Competency of advisors and objective of training
Electrical preventive maintenance:
- History of electrical maintenance program
- Knowledge of relevant standards during the program
- Transformer and periodic calibration of meters
Electrical protection system:
- Are the protection relays set and coordinated?
- Are the relays set by calculated parameters?
- Are the relays calibrated and tested periodically?
- Are HRC fuses, standard fuse wires, MCBs, MCCBs, RCCBs, etc. available
- Availability of transformer protection devices
Benefits of Availing Service from Care Labs:
- Increased level of safety
- Development of electrical safety responsibilities
- Compliance with safety regulations
- Identification and elimination of hazards
- Ensure longevity for the equipment
- Develop a dynamic record and positive cycle of improvement
Contact us today to know more about our electrical safety audit service or avail our service.
