by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | Jul 7, 2026 | Electrical Safety, Facility Compliance, Industrial Electrical Consulting
Electrical equipment rarely fails on a convenient schedule. It fails when a connection has been loosening for months, when a breaker hasn’t tripped correctly in years, or when load has crept up past what the original study accounted for. The good news is that...
by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | Jul 7, 2026 | Arc Flash, Electrical Safety, Risk Management
A renewal questionnaire lands on your desk, and somewhere between the sprinkler inspection dates and the roof age, there’s a new line item: Do you have a current arc flash study? For a lot of facility managers, that question comes out of nowhere. The equipment...
by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | Jul 3, 2026 | Electrical Engineering, Electrical Safety, Industrial Electrical Consulting, Power Systems
Adding electrical load to an existing facility can feel like a straightforward decision at first. A tenant needs more power. A company wants to install EV chargers. A manufacturing facility is adding a new piece of equipment. A property owner is planning upgrades to...
by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | May 9, 2026 | Electrical Safety, Facility Compliance, Infrared, Thermal Imaging
Infrared thermography is one of those tools that gets more powerful the smarter you are about when you use it. The technology itself, a thermal camera that reads heat signatures through surfaces without contact, is well understood. The part that most facilities get...
by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | Feb 26, 2026 | Blog, Electrical Safety, Facility Compliance
Lockout/Tagout isn’t just another safety checkbox on your compliance list; it’s the critical procedure that stands between your workers and potentially fatal energy releases during maintenance operations. Yet despite being one of OSHA’s most...
by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | Jan 22, 2026 | Electrical Engineering, Electrical Safety
Every facility manager faces this question at some point: Can we handle this electrical compliance issue in-house, or do we need to bring in outside engineering consulting expertise? It’s not always an easy call. You’ve got capable maintenance teams,...
