by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | Aug 10, 2026 | Arc Flash
An arc flash study report tells you how much energy could be released at each point in your electrical system during a fault, what protective equipment workers need, and where your highest-risk areas are. The problem is that most of these reports are written by...
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 | May 10, 2026 | Arc Flash, Infrared, Thermal Imaging
Arc flash assessments and thermographic scanning are often treated as separate line items on a facility’s safety budget: two independent services, scheduled independently, producing separate reports that live in separate binders. That separation is a missed...
by Shaw Consulting Services | Flash Risk Assessments & More | Apr 6, 2026 | Power Systems
Ask most facility managers what power system studies cost, and they can give you a number. Ask them what an unplanned outage costs, and the conversation gets uncomfortable fast. For a mid-size manufacturing facility, an hour of unplanned downtime can cost tens to...
