Electric Safety: Practice and Standards - Hardcover

El-Sharkawi, Mohamed A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466571497 ISBN 13: 9781466571495

Publisher: CRC Press, 2013

Synopsis

Electric power engineering education traditionally covers safety of the power equipment and systems. Little attention, if any, is given to the safety of people. When they reach professional status, most power engineers are not familiar with electric safety issues such as practices governing site works or grounding techniques of dwellings, hospitals, and factories. Designed for both electrical engineering student and practicing power engineers, Electric Safety: Practice and Standards provides the knowledge and analysis they need to be well versed in electric safety.

Features:

• Includes techniques to assess safety practices at worksites and provides remedies to correct safety problems
• Addresses the elusive stray voltage problem and provides techniques to mitigate its impact in dwellings as well as in sensitive installations such as hospitals and dairy farms
• Provides approximate, yet accurate, analyses and techniques that can be used to assess electric safety without the need for extensive computation or elaborate programs
• Includes several case studies from real events and examples demonstrating how variations in electric safety procedure implementation influence safety levels

Based on the authors’ years of experience as an expert witness and electric safety training instructor, the book covers the analysis of electric safety practices as well as the interpretations of various safety codes. Including homework problems and a solutions manual, this book is a comprehensive guide to recognize and eliminate hazards of electric shocks for professionals working on electric power equipment, as well as people such as the general public in commonly used places, farms workers and animals, and hospital patients.

About this title

Review:

"... an excellent resource and supplement to any accident prevention training program and for a variety of electrical workers including safety specialists, engineers, linemen, substation technicians, electricians, and wind and solar technicians. I will purchase additional copies so that student libraries at each of our campuses will have it on the shelf for both staff and student reference. My compliments to Prof. El-Sharkawi for his efforts in bringing to the power industry a valuable reference book."
―Alan Drew, from IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, September/October 2015

"This book can be very helpful for not only the power engineer looking to improve communication and understanding to field workers but could be useful to plant engineers who may have many of the issues described in the book. Solutions for solving many common problems found in the field can be gained from the knowledge in this book. In addition to presenting an excellent text on electrical safety, the several real-life case studies presented and the numerous examples that show the implementation of the electric safety procedures make this a gem of a book."
―IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, November/December 2014

"... very well written ... well illustrated and covers a wealth of valuable subjects ... of value to final year third level students undertaking many courses in electrical and electronic engineering. It will also be of value for students undertaking a taught post-graduate course that includes those areas which feature electrical safety. ... a good introductory resource for those undertaking research in the area, including practitioners of electrical engineering, in general."
―Prof. J M Blackledge, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

"... will be of good use to an engineering student or new engineer learning about electric system safety as well as the practicing engineer. ... provides the basics for understanding electrical system safety in commercial, industrial and utility applications. The book moves quickly through the concepts with sufficient examples to understand and apply the math, formulas and principles used."
―Max Emrick, Senior Member IEEE, Engineering Manager, Protection Automation and Controls

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1466571497
• ISBN 13: 9781466571495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464